Stendhal Quotes

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Exactitude is not truth.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

On cannot be precise, and still be true.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

I like definitive things.

I deal in facts.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

I cite my vouchers to every passage and I have done my utmost, first to find out the truth, and then to relate it in the clearest order. I have laboured after accuracy; and yet I dare not say that I am without mistake; nor do I desire the reader to conceal any he may possibly find.

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

I believe only in the mathematics.

You can't argue with the truth.