We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
