Approximate Quotes

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.