"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy,……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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203 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne has 203 quotes on this site.
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you…
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable…
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will…
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry…
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Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it…
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more…
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are…
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There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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More Accuracy Quotes
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
— Richard Avedon
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with…
— Martha Beck
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
— Saul Bellow
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
— John Dewey
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
— Wyatt Earp
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
— Harry Vardon
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children…
— Robin Sharma
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance…
— Charles Babbage
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