Famous Quotes | Accuracy is, in every case,...
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.
- David Hume
Attribution: David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish philosopher. Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, sect. 1 (”Of the Different Species of Philosophy”), p. 10, ed. L. Selby-Bigge, M.A., 2nd edition, London, Oxford University Press (1902). From “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.”
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