#accurate

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#activities #bed #canvas #different #eight

Silence is so accurate. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#silence

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#around #closely #effectively #function #helps

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#accurately #after #animal #before #bone

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#around #biography #doing #going #him

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it. ↗

— Herman Cain

#accurate information #bad #consider #counted #information

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#afar #battle #battles #few #fight

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#burden #carry #go #let go #lived

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#future #healthy #knowledge #past #possible