Self Correction Quotes

“Errors and Evolution (The Sonnet)

Elimination of error is elimination of evolution,
What's needed is correction of error not elimination.
Why you ask - because error expands perception,
While absence of error indicates absence of ascension.
Pebbles don't make mistakes, for pebbles have no life.
People make mistakes, for people are alive and kicking.
Make the error, mend the error, that is how we grow.
Don't be ashamed, don't be boastful, just keep correcting.
Those who never make mistakes, never amount to anything,
Failures are the foundation of a legend's legacy.
Let them celebrate your triumphs all they want,
You for one celebrate your mistakes and misery.
The shallow measure a person by their glorious victories.
Those with character measure a character by their tragedies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“To err is animal, to correct is human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Knowledge is ignorance we've chosen to correct.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“I Am My Teacher (Sonnet 1234)

I teach myself when I need to learn something,
I correct myself when I make mistakes.
No two year old shaped as 40, 50, 60 or 70,
Has the maturity to provide me moral guidance.

I taught myself electronics when I fell for it,
I taught myself music in my youthful high.
I taught myself languages in sheer obsession,
I taught myself aeronautics when I wanted to fly.

Critics mail, I should add "biggest ego" to my bio,
I thank them all for an astounding revelation.
If I actually behaved befitting my capacity,
Half your legends will lose their reputation.

You only see the tip of the ice-berg,
Fullness of the Himalayas you'll never see.
I chose to put many of my passions aside,
One path, one mission - one answer to calamity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Sickness acknowledged is sickness half treated.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Mind your mind before you mind the world, and in time the world will have all the right mind it needs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“Sometimes the harshest ridicule holds the direst question - question that is necessary for self-correction – question that is necessary for self-improvement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“A great portion of my work is born as a response to ridicule. That is why, I do not retaliate ridicule right away. Why let a good ridicule go to waste! Use it to your advantage. That's the wisest retaliation of ridicule there is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“My life is the question, my life is the answer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“The only people who'll ever figure out who they are, are those who don't know who they are - whereas those who have already accepted their ancestral heritage as their ultimate identity, have no identity to begin with - they are just lifeless photocopies of the past, nothing else.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Upon conscientious acts of self-correction civilization unfolds. Animals gotta live by instincts, we can't choose the same road.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“I assume, I'll always assume,
That is my animal conditioning.
But the human in me is always awake,
To never let the animal be overbearing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“We are civilized not when we don't behave uncivilized. We are civilized when we know when we behave uncivilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Sapiens is the dawn,
Sapiens is the saint.
Sapiens is the bridge of heart,
Sapiens is the mend.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Get to know the animal within,
World will know the human outside.
Resist no more the darkness within,
World will wake up to a dawn divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Truth isn't a measure of knowledge,
Truth is the measure of correction.
Light isn't a measure of illumination,
Light is the measure of intention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Truth isn't a measure of knowledge,
Truth is the measure of correction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“We are all refugees inside our mind - a sentient being trying to escape its animal past towards a human future, and in doing so, we set the foundation for a civilized world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Flawless life is fragile life,
Flawed life is resilient life.
Greatest resilience is self-correction,
the seed of true civilization,
Flaws aware are instrument of flight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Greatest resilience is self-correction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“To err is machine, to correct is mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Correction is the difference between consciousness and compost.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Morality is an act of self-correction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“You are the gospel you need to read,
You are the path you need to walk.
You are the torch you need to light,
You are the voice you need to talk.

You are the sight you need to see,
You are the thirst you need to quench.
You are the warmth you need to wear,
You are the drought you need to drench.

You are the muck you need to mend,
You are the wrong you need to right.
You are the storm you need to brave,
You are the fate you need to write.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“You are the gospel you need to read,
You are the path you need to walk.
You are the torch you need to light,
You are the voice you need to talk.

You are the muck you need to mend,
You are the wrong you need to right.
You are the storm you need to brave,
You are the fate you need to write.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Defend principle, not prejudice.
Support reformation, not rigidity.
Be responsible, not reckless.
Support correction, not conformity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Naskar's Folly (The Sonnet)

If your perception doesn't evolve with time,
It's not a sign of conviction but cowardice.
So in this sonnet I take it upon myself,
to correct my own early follies.

In one of my early works I called America,
"a great country, built by great people,"
while the harsh humanitarian fact of earth is,
America is a terrorist nation, built by criminals.

I once naively asked to 'appreciate the soldiers',
while unintentionally undermining peace-activism.
That one line has been eating me alive, until
in 2023 I declared, "military is legal terrorism."

Own up your follies, use them to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“If your perception doesn't evolve with time, it's not a sign of conviction but cowardice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Own up your follies, use them
to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are
the beginning of illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets