Quote

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Dishonesty
Accuracy
Twins
Falsehood
Near
Honesty
Brother
Inaccuracy
Truth
Twin

More quotes by Tryon Edwards

Image
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them they give them power for good or evil they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.
Tryon Edwards
Image
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
Tryon Edwards
Image
This world is the land of the dying the next is the land of the living.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards
Image
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
Tryon Edwards
Image
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards
Image
To possess money is very well it may be a valuable servant to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
Tryon Edwards
Image
To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
Tryon Edwards
Image
The first evil choice or act is linked to the second and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny
Tryon Edwards
Image
Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
Image
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards