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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell

Smart, Strong, Mistakes

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

Good, Men, Teacher

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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

Critical, Easier

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
Robert E. Lee

Life, Good, Live

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.
Albert Camus

History, Sun, Between

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

Fun, Become, Stop

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.
Salvador Dali

Nature, Mistakes, Understand

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

Yourself, True, Evil

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!
Mitt Romney

Talk, Straight, Prefer

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Stephen King

Heart, Person, Small

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
Xi Zhi

Yourself, Daily, Find

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard

Truth, May, Easy

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Niels Bohr

Crazy, Feeling, Enough

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman

Life, Happiness, Courage

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Trying, Whole

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Pope John XXIII

Great, Deal, Overlook

It is easier to be critical than correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

Critical, Easier

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

Critical, Easier

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wish, Dangerous, Fault

A loafer always has the correct time.
Kin Hubbard

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
LeBron James

Live, End, Decisions

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

Mistakes, Human, Wrong

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
John Stuart Mill

Wrong, Both, Sides

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen

Opinion, General

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Quite, Whose, Ten

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.
E. O. Wilson

Forgive, Process, Natural

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
James Bryant Conant

Behavior, Corrupt, Surface

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