A Quote by Ezra Pound

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Ezra Pound

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Accuracy Fundamental Morality Sole Statement Writing

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Ezra Pound
American - Poet
October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

Niels Bohr

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!

Joseph Pulitzer

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Hugh Blair

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

Larry Hagman

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

Steven Pinker

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitzer

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

Nate Silver

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Garrett Hardin

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

John Dewey

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

Orhan Pamuk

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.