Exactness Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exactness Men Speak Thinking
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do. — Shaunie O'Neal Copy Share Image
Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
