Quotes with exactness

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• Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

  François Fénelon
  French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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• The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

  Hugh Blair
  Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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• It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• 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.

  René Daumal
  French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• approximation
• unutterable
• instructed
• satisfied
• precision
• possible

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