Scrupulous Quotes

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And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe. — Todd Rundgren
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love')… — A. O. Scott
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's… — Terrence Rafferty
The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than… — Noah Webster
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when… — Simone de Beauvoir
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to… — Henry Van Dyke
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth… — E F Schumacher
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And… — George Orwell
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance. — Joseph Conrad
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to… — Dag Hammarskjold
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all? — Christopher Fry
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions. — Bill Keller
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted. — Joyce Carol Oates
One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above… — Paul Cezanne
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith… — Leon Wieseltier
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away… — Joseph Conrad
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and… — George Eliot
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is… — Cormac McCarthy

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