Correct Quotes

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.