Exactitude Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. — Heywood Hale Broun
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place… — Ernest Hello
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two… — Warren Winiarski
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix
Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are… — Charles Baudelaire
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the… — Anne Michaels
Things worthwhile generally donâ€™t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence… — Branch Rickey
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress… — Charles Sanders Peirce
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths… — Remy de Gourmont
The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the… — Cornelius Cardew
Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules.… — Jean Baudrillard
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that,… — Eugene Delacroix
Exactitude is not truth. — Henri Matisse
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to… — Branch Rickey
We have numerous friends . we are happy in beside them . we think are in paradise! but when we have problem ! one of… — Kamal

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