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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. -- Francois Fenelon
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. -- Niklaus Wirth
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. -- Rene Daumal
Exactness of intention produces elegance of style. -- Nathan Milstein
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. -- Frederick William Faber
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books. -- Samuel Johnson
Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . . -- Samuel Johnson
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. -- Hugh Blair
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. -- Plutarch
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. -- Napoleon Hill
Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life. -- Stephen Covey
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us. -- Maria Montessori
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease. -- Joseph Addison
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context. -- Stephen Covey
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. -- Nikola Tesla
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. -- Aristotle
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast. -- Mark Twain
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals. -- William E. Gladstone
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession. -- Herbert Hoover
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator. -- Aristotle
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones. -- Georg Simmel
Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day begins so the rest of the day continues; (2) give yourselves sincerely to God on going to bed in the evening, asking Him for the strength to overcome yourselves in the morning and to obey His voice without delay. -- Vincent de Paul
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. -- Edmund Burke
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. -- George D. Prentice
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. -- Adam Smith
Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability. -- Edgar Alwin Payne
No technique is possible when men are free.... Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being. -- Jacques Ellul
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....] -- Vilfredo Pareto

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