Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.

I always know what time it is.

I'm extremely accurate; that's one of my biggest strengths.

I am a precise person in everything I do.

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.

Precision matters, breh.

I'm accurate and I can land on anyone's chin.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Consummated science is positively humble.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

Everything that is exact is short.

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.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.