Home » Quote » Confucius » „The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.“ „The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.“ — Confucius Tags:DependencyLifePerfection Related quotes „Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.“ — Ali „The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pass that mechanics is so distinguished from geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical; what is less so is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic: and if any could work with perfect accuracy, he would be the most perfect mechanic of all; for the description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn; for it requires that the learner should first be taught to describe these accurately, before he enters upon geometry; then it shows how by these operations problems may be solved.“ — Isaac Newton „I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life.“ — W. H. Auden
„The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.“ — Confucius Tags:DependencyLifePerfection