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Quotes About Correction

Ecclesiastes 1:15, "The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.
~ Edward Ball
The pride of states, as well as of men, naturally disposes them to justify all their actions, and opposes their acknowledging, correcting, or repairing their errors and offenses.
~ Alexander Hamilton
first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt. 7:5).
~ Alfred Ells
I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.
~ Jason Calacanis
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
~ Edward Albee
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
~ Sam Walton
I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
~ Dan Webster
When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.
~ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Thus talent sometimes wishes to correct genius, as if the eaglet wished to teach the eagle to fly.
~ Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
He also gave me some advice that I follow to this day: "Sing in the mirror. If it looks funny, it's wrong.
~ Renee Fleming
For me, the other compelling thread, which dates back to my college days in the 1980s, has been my growing recognition that liberalism—the political ideology I was raised in and still am most generally attracted to—has a serious elitism problem that needs correcting.
~ Richard D. Kahlenberg
Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment
~ Richard Powers
Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom.
~ Richard Powers
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
~ Danny Silk
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.
~ George Friedman
Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.
~ Myles Munroe
Uno de los principales desvelos de los colombianos fue siempre la búsqueda de la corrección en el lenguaje. A ello se debe la vaga fama de hablar el mejor español en el continente, que más bien revela una larga persistencia del modelo colonial, una enorme resistencia a la incorporción de aportes originales, una fijación en el culto de la metrópoli y la entronización de lo castizo como canon inapelable.
~ William Ospina
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
~ William Safire
Let the punishment fit the crime.
~ William Schwenck Gilbert
A light to guide, a rodTo check the erring, and reprove.
~ William Wordsworth
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
~ Woodrow Wilson
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
~ Xun Zi