“3769. One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“We aim at a target—an end—marked by a point. The arrows go to right and left, high or low, according to the address of the shooters. In the mean time, after a considerable number of trials, the butt, which has not yet been touched, perhaps, a single time, becomes so well pointed out by the marks around it, that they would aid at once in rediscovering it, if it should chance to be lost sight of. Nay, more than this; even aims the most unfortunate may be made to conduce to this end; commencing with those marks which are farthest away, if they be sufficiently numerous, one may learn from them the real position of the point they surround.”
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
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Variant: The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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Klopp comparing the financial capabilities of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
About Bayern Munich
“We aimed far and high, but we did not miss the mark.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
Part 4, 1979 - 1984 "Welcome to the 1980's", p. 340
Memoirs (1993)
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
