Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. — Friedrich von Logau Copy Share Image
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness. — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In all things that you find in the Holy Scriptures, seek out the purpose of the words, that you may enter into… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“In the face of every type of pain, we tend to think that life will never be the same, but guess what,… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . . — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth.… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
