Self Correction Quotes

“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

“Don't Hide Your Past (The Sonnet)

The first few minutes of my first
stage talk were absolute disaster.
First few books were mere intellectual
commentary, lacking in original Naskar.

Don't beat yourself up for the
follies of your early years.
Doesn't matter, you made mistakes,
what counts is, you outgrew your errors.

If a life claims a flawless history,
rest assured, it's a concoction of lies.
Flawlessness is mark of lifelessness,
to be alive means to be battered by cries.

Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity,
they wire your unique perception in place.
Absence of error is the end of living sanity,
to fabricate your past is to obliterate yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“An expert is their own biggest critic, a non expert is their own biggest fan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“To make a mess is human, to make amends, divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Mind is one big lie,
unless you examine everything.
Life is one big blind spot,
unless you question everything.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“To be aware is to rewire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Own your skeletons, or others will use them to own you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Human is a speck of order
upon the fabric of chaos -
tiny yet evident,
fragile yet unflinching -

a daring dot in the
vastness of the universe -
brutal to its historic core,
forged from the jungle ore,

yet eyes aiming at infinite stars,
with heart healing from past woe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Over the years, quite a few sonnets never saw the light of day, because every time I write something radical, I always ask myself three questions - first, is it true - second, is it kind - and finally, is it necessary? And often it's at the final question, that I'm reluctantly compelled to press delete on quite a few texts. Yet I don't regret it, in fact, once I do delete that bit of my creation, I feel a huge load off my back - because, my mission is not mindless radicalism, my mission is mindful humanizing of the world. In the absence of heart, even truth becomes mindless - and the mindless never know they're mindless, they feel like it's an act of courage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Over the years, quite a few sonnets never saw the light of day, because every time I write something radical, I always ask myself three questions - first, is it true - second, is it kind - and finally, is it necessary? And often it's at the final question, that I'm reluctantly compelled to press delete on quite a few texts. Yet I don't regret it, in fact, once I do delete that bit of my creation, I feel a huge load off my back - because, my mission is not mindless radicalism, my mission is mindful humanizing of the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“You cannot develop consciousness without correcting your biases.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Admission of error is the beginning of enlightenment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Reverence without revision isn't sanctity, it's stagnation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Correction is the mothertongue of truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In English we say: to err is human, to forgive divine. In Naskarian we say: to err is machine, to correct human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say:
charity covers a multitude of sins.
In Naskarian we say:
correction prevents a multitude of injustice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“There's no bigger lie than a truth that refuses to evolve with time or be mended when at fault.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Life is but a series of disillusionments.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop