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Accuracy is the quality of being precise, true, and exact. Without accuracy, even good intentions can cause harm. Our perceptions are prone to distortion because of self serving biases and a tendency to ignore contradictory information. We approach accuracy only by humble truth seeking. In our interactions with others, it is easy to overstate what we want to be true, or to understate what we wish was not so. Accuracy requires constant awareness and effort to speak with precision. Related virtues: honesty, truth-seeking.
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Accuracy - Diligence - Humility - Truth-seeking
Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
  • Author: Kahlil Gibran
  • Contributor: Turtle
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The Prophet
Page 60
Published by Alfred A. Knopf
Published in New York
Published in 1992
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~pvk/literature/gibran/gibran20.html
Contribution #1842
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Accuracy - Knowledge - Pragmatism - Rationality - Citizenship
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
  • Author: Nelson Mandela
  • Contributor: darcyr
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Nelson Mandela
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Accuracy - Truth-seeking
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
  • Author: Tryon Edwards
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Edwards, Tryon
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Accuracy
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
  • Author: Charles Simmons
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Simmons, Charles
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Contribution #174