Exactness Quotes

44 quotes by 41 authors

(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day begins so the… — Vincent de Paul
Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies… — William E. Gladstone
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. — Frederick William Faber
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there… — Miguel de Cervantes
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. — Francois Fenelon
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more… — Herbert Hoover
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a… — Gerhard Richter
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when… — Edmund Burke
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. — Plutarch
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. — Niklaus Wirth
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence,… — Marquis de Sade
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the… — Pat Conroy
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life,… — Anne Lamott
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman

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