Age Quote by John Fowles

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to…

— Robert Musil

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

— Anonymous

“Our greatest failing is that we neglect the significance of a question and obsess over the accuracy of the answer. Therefore, we end up…

— D.A. Blankinship

A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

— Ignatius of Loyola

“creature with imprecise contours, a sort of deceitful, dishonest amoeba that can’t be investigated, for, looking for it again under the microscope, we find…

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it.”

— J.K. Rowling

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

— Werner Heisenberg

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

— Zadie Smith

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise…

— Felix Mendelssohn

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

— Umberto Eco