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Exactness Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .
More Exactness Quotes
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain
- Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental… — Stephen Covey
- It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to… — 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… — Urbain Le Verrier
- It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.… — Aristotle
- 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
- A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce