Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. — Friedrich von Logau Copy Share Image
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . . — Samuel Johnson 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
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. — Plutarch 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
“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
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
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
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that… — Pierre-Simon Laplace 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
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
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
Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain 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
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife… — Arundhati Roy 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
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
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
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and… — Marquis de Sade 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
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
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
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. — Harry Emerson Fosdick 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
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
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