Precise Knowledge Quotes

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.

Good intelligence is targeted intelligence.

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.