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Arthur Schopenhauer quotesIt is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Jean de La Fontaine quotesThe fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Proverb quotesMeasure three times before you cut once.
Bertrand Russell quotesAlthough this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
Charles Caleb Colton quotesPedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
Pablo Picasso quotesOne does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.