"We are in danger of valuing most highly……" — John Banham
"We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right"
More Accurately Quotes
- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be… — Edward de Bono
- The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a… — Charles Spurgeon
- The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and… — J. William Fulbright
- The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could… — Mark Twain
- The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said… — Lewis H. Lapham
- We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused… — Julia Cameron
- Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. — Heinz Pagels
- You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost… — James Madison
- When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the… — Rajneesh
- The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series… — Unknown Author
- The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded… — Pierre-Simon Laplace