Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning and is the ready prey of cunning.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

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.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.