Language Quote by Peter Abelard Download Open image “Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others” — Peter Abelard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Precise Precision Use
Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them. — Gary Bettman Copy Share Image
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Be imprecise. Understand the concept of “by-and-large” and use approximations. Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce… — Thomas R. Marshall Copy Share Image
“Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom... for by doubting we come to inquiry; through inquiring we perceive the truth...” — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love...… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
“By doubting we are led to enquiry, and by enquiry we discern the truth.” — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium.… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
“We do many things carelessly or unwillingly, but nothing studiously unless we are willing and apply ourselves.” — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away,… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
