Marc Chagall Quotes

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

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

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.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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'.

Exactitude is not truth.

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

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

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

Everything is self-evident.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I like definitive things.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

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.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.