Top 100 Correct Quotes
#1. Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.
David Bronstein
#2. I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.
Jonathan Haidt
#3. Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.
Amor Towles
#4. She refers to herself as the side effect, which is just totally correct.
John Green
#5. If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world
Tony Blair
#6. Living your life without goals and plans is like trying to send a letter to somewhere without adding the correct the address ... The letter may get elsewhere in some days; so your life too goes somewhere else without better goals!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages
hate them to the death.
Joseph Conrad
#8. What happened to your stammer?"
"I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people."
"No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.
Lisa Kleypas
#10. It's a mistake to act as though we're not created equal.
It's another mistake not to correct the first one.
Blaming others nurtures failure.
Helping others reaps a share of their success.
L. Anthony
#11. Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.
Andrei Sakharov
#12. Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Loretta Young
#13. Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth.
John Waters
#14. Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down.
Dave Barry
#15. When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.
Confucius
#17. Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.
James B. Jordan
#18. Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow
#19. 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
#20. For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
Stephen Hawking
#21. If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
Woodrow Wilson
#22. The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal ... The business of art is to appeal to the soul.
Florence Earle Coates
#23. We are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it:
Haruki Murakami
#24. We have become so politically correct in this society it is causing us to become more and more incorrect; this is costing us lives.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#25. It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom.
R.K. Narayan
#26. You do realize," he said, "that 'nauseated' actually means that you make other people sick. The correct phrasing would be 'I feel nauseous.
Dana Fredsti
#27. I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.
Francoise Mouly
#28. Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance,
Admire the moments
Discuss the late events,
Correct our watches by the public clocks.
Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks.
T. S. Eliot
#29. There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!"
Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?
Rachel Caine
#30. Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.
Robert Kiyosaki
#31. It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
Wassily Kandinsky
#32. You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
Elle Macpherson
#33. If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.
Robert Jeffress
#35. My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
George Soros
#36. Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Anonymous
#37. The correct answer to almost any question in economics is: It depends.
Dani Rodrik
#38. Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the world (which are also called the three sectors of world revolution), then you have an overall, correct view of world reality.
Ernest Mandel
#39. The Gnani Purush [The enlightened one] always remains untouched in his worldly interactions. Everything will get resolved for us if we go to Him. He shows us what is 'correct' and what is 'incorrect'.
Dada Bhagwan
#40. Anyone who tells you that he or she knows the "correct" way to study either is lying or has a superiority complex
Stefanie Weisman
#41. As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.
Kelis
#42. Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?
Nellie L. McClung
#43. The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
Brandon Sanderson
#44. I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
Buffalo Bill
#45. Rather than say that the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, we would be more correct to say that it lost its sensitivity to it. It lost information ... Information cannot be built up by mutations that lose it. A business can't make money by losing it a little at a time.
Lee Spetner
#46. In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.
Adolf Hitler
#47. Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
Jonathan Swift
#48. It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish.
Robbie Ross
#49. I am speaking English, correct? I ask because sometimes I speak another language without meaning to.
Ashlan Thomas
#50. Anyone who silences someone else because they believe the other person's opinion is false assumes infallibility. They must be absolutely certain that they are correct on the matter.
Nigel Warburton
#51. June 1st is a date that is looming in everybody's mind with the final enforcement of the UIGEA. I actually think it may, finally, once and for all prove that it's an ineffective law. Congress created that law and now Congress has to do something to correct it.
John Pappas
#52. 'When two people meet who are obviously attracted to each other, like we are, it always starts out as a game. I make a move, you make a move, and if the moves are correct, we both win.'
S.J.D. Peterson
#53. I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
#54. I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
Chuck Norris
#55. Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them, and wise enough to correct them.
Amine A. Ayad
#56. In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
Harper Lee
#57. The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.
Pierre Boulez
#58. My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.
Jane Russell
#59. Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.
Giacomo Leopardi
#60. Of course, speed is most useful if it is in the correct direction;
David J. Anderson
#61. The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.
Jon Stewart
#62. I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
Michael Schur
#63. what valuable company is nobody building? Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable. If there are many secrets left in the world, there are probably many world-changing companies yet to be started.
Peter Thiel
#64. I don't have any pictures of the lovely Aboriginal people I met because they think it traps their spirit, and if they're correct then Facebook is basically creating a living hell. Which is really not that surprising, now that I say it out loud.
Jenny Lawson
#65. People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
B.R. Ambedkar
#66. Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It's in the data.
Marcus Sakey
#67. Transaction successful. Safeword: Rainbow Your secret question: Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? Correct Answer: Pineapples. Watch your back. Sincerely, Happy Kitty
Nina G. Jones
#68. The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.
King Vidor
#69. 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
#70. [There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.
Eleanor Antin
#71. You know, that's what real diversity is: a diversity of the mind, which is absolutely apolitical as opposed to the politically correct version of diversity.
Gary J. Byrne
#72. I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.
Amy Adams
#73. Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.
R.A. Salvatore
#74. It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
Luc De Clapiers
#75. Short version: it doesn't matter how many bad decisions you just made, your job is to make the next one correct.
Steven Brust
#76. Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn't about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
A.R. Rahman
#77. Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you.
Carl Sagan
#79. Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.
William Shakespeare
#80. Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
Voltaire
#81. Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#82. It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
Padraic Colum
#83. Let's realise that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realise that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself o herself, and condemn us in return.
Dale Carnegie
#84. I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own makeup.
Kelly Rowland
#85. If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment.
Tracy Engelbrecht
#87. Correct. The male instinct is to cheat. You need to overcome it.'
'Women accept it as long as you don't embarrass them with it. Look at France.
Graeme Simsion
#88. When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones ? I'm temporarily in a euphoric state.
Bill Luff
#89. You don't kiss the correct way," she blurted out.
Maya Banks
#90. Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
Oliver Ellsworth
#91. I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think ... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think.
Kirk Douglas
#92. The Umbrella Ward is holding except that one blip in that popular game that's going around. Annoying as the Shuos are, they are correct that people can be manipulated through games.
Yoon Ha Lee
#93. I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.
John Wooden
#94. Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.
Lenny Bruce
#95. Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning.
Stephen Jay Gould
#96. Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'
Seungsahn
#97. We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?
Arianna Huffington
#98. If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.
Martin Firrell
#99. Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
Tom Robbins
#100. If all these considerations are correct, then the appearance of eyes really could have ignited the Cambrian explosion. And if that's the case, then the evolution of the eye must certainly number among the most dramatic and important events in the whole history of life on earth.
Nick Lane
