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Precise Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man…
- We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
More Precise Quotes
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. — Franklin P. Adams
- We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority… — Annie Besant
- The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel
- To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of… — Alfred North Whitehead
- The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop
- [It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so… — Karl Jaspers