Exactness Quotes

44 quotes by 41 authors

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in… — Mark Twain
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not… — Aristotle
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and… — Stephen Covey
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay… — Alphonsus Liguori
It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge… — Jean-Andre Deluc
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Urbain Le Verrier
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can… — Leonardo da Vinci
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by… — Georg Simmel
I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any… — Max Born
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead
Exactness of intention produces elegance of style. — Nathan Milstein
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that… — Vilfredo Pareto
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named;… — Rene Daumal
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally… — Aristotle
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the… — Samuel Johnson
Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . . — Samuel Johnson
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us. — Maria Montessori

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