"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy……" — Tryon Edwards
"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."
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81 Quotes by Tryon Edwards
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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius…
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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our…
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where…
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave…
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow…
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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
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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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