Quotes About Correctness

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

6.6.19.61.247: Vulgar mispronunciations of everyday words will not be tolerated.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Qibli was right. Again. There was nothing MORE INFURIATING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again—only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a Warrior of the Light perseveres until the end.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

Es mejor estar equivocado que ser impreciso. —FREEMAN DYSON

Fryderyk, asymiluj?c z niezwyk?? skwapliwo?ci? tego ducha arystokratycznego, zacz?? tak?e wysoko si? nosi? — udziela? si? od czasu do czasu rozmowie, ale jak kto?, czyje milczenie by?oby dla wszystkich niezas?u?on? katastrof?. I oto naraz jego l?k przed niepoprawno?ci? sta? si? w nim wy?szo?ci? i dum?!

Riled by pedantic reviewers in search of a solecism, Proust said that there was no correctness this side of originality.

Sí, ambicioso... Si lo llamo ambicioso, es sobre todo en honor a nuestra estrecha amistad, de otro modo se expresaría uno más correctamente diciendo que pega fuerte con los codos. La ambición es una cosa tan poco ordinaria... Nos hemos acostumbrado a decir que alguien es ambicioso cuando aspira a ser consejero de estado.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

There's a correct way to succeed. The incorrect way is to do things incorrectly.

While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does

A Correct Message Is A Correct Attitude.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 2, 2016

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

The correctness of a decision can't be judged from the outcome. Nevertheless, that's how people assess it. A good decision is one that's optimal at the time it's made, when the future is by definition unknown. Thus, correct decisions are often unsuccessful, and vice versa.

If you've settled on the value approach to investing and come up with an intrinsic value for a security or asset, the next important thing is to hold it firmly. That's because in the world of investing, being correct about something isn't at all synonymous with being proved correct right away.

I guess she was being politically correct . . . or a weenie. Maybe that's the same thing.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally. - Harry Dresden