Quotes About Correctness

I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.

In science, if you stand up and say something you know is not correct, that's career-ending. It used to be that way in politics, but not anymore.

You will find professed quotations from authors, of the correctness of which you will not be satisfied; and how important is it to be able to satisfy yourself by examining the originals!

The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or—at the very least—why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Cuando el portal se activa,es que las coordenadas no son incorrectas

highly codified and formal foreign language known as French – a language which, according to many French-speakers, almost no one speaks correctly. In the land of a thousand tongues, monolingualism became the mark of the educated person.

La felicidad sobre el campo, el mayor número de decisiones correctas, como en la vida, parte del equilibro.

It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

If you want your appliance to work right, it's a good idea to install the batteries correctly with the plus signs facing the right way.

Everybody knows 'technically' is the best kind of correct.

Predicting correctly is the definition of wisdom.

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

lo agradable de una ocupación no es siempre prueba de su corrección.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

And she did not have to ask if this were right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

If you're going to break the rules, you might as well break them correctly.

I'm always right.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

But listen, listen . . . a mind-set that's caught up in, even imprisoned by legality and correctness of form . . . what is that way of thinking if not Druhástranian? To be Druhástranian is to be dissatisfied with one's condition until one can find some official personage to sign off on it.

If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must after all be correct.