Correct Quotes

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. (Demosthenes)
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. View quote
John C. Maxwell
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. View quote
Niels Bohr
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? View quote
Clarence Darrow
This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. View quote
George Soros
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. View quote
Donald Knuth
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. View quote
Jane Austen
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. View quote
Alan Perlis
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. View quote
George Boole
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors. (Livy)
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. View quote
Dean Koontz
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. View quote
Albert Camus
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. View quote
Joseph Smith
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. View quote
Loretta Young
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine. View quote
Mikhail Tal
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct. (Lee Kuan Yew)
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. View quote
John Dewey
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry ... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do. View quote
Elinor Ostrom
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg