A Quote by Orlando Aloysius Battista

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

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Become Correct Error Mistake Refuse Until

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Orlando Aloysius Battista
Canadian - Scientist
June 20, 1917 - October 3, 1995

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

John F. Kennedy

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

John Lennon

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

Mahatma Gandhi

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

Marilyn vos Savant

Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

Edgar Cayce

He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.

Pope Leo I

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

Bill W.

When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

Jonas Salk

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

Ayn Rand

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Confucius

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

Ed Koch

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

Larry Bird

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.