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
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in… — Anonymous 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
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
We must receive the one who curses us as a messenger from God, rebuking our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law"… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
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