A Quote by Confucius

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.

Francis Crick

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

Karl Lagerfeld

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

Larry Wilmore

Start being biblically correct, instead of politically correct.

Ted Cruz

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

L. Ron Hubbard

To apply poetic license or to apply incorrect arrangements requires the idea or the understanding of correct arrangements - becoming an expert of the conventions of correct arrangements in order to misplace them. In other words, misplacing things with the understanding, or even the mastery, of normalcy is actually quite poetic. These are rule-based operations.

Jimenez Lai

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Criss Jami

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

Warren Buffett

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

George Polya

Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."Truth: Obama later said, "This was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech and we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given. The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem.

Barack Obama

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.

Robert Rauschenberg

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Alan Perlis

It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.

Gary Lineker

You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption

Herbert W. Armstrong

Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

Dalai Lama

A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.

Mae Jemison

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