Quotes About Inaccuracy

The inaccuracy issue. Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it's not great. But I think that it's a little blown out of proportion.

They do awful things in the press. One newspaper in England said I was 12 years older than I am, and I was ready to sue.

The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.

Bias and noise—systematic deviation and random scatter—are different components of error.

In the original Greek, one of the meanings of sin [hamartia] is simply "to miss the mark.

They're always wrong in the movies.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

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

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

On Betrayal ] ...The theme seems to be betrayal in relationships but in fact it is 'honesty' and how there are different gradations of honesty. Revealing the truth is not the only alternative to concealing it. There can be layers of carefully managed confession and revelation. Also the inaccuracy of memory itself can be a crucial factor in determining who knew what and when they knew it.

When he was still in here with me, my pigeon buddy President Wilson would rag me, joking but jealous, about all the ink committed to Whit and me in newsprint, magazines, the pages of books. But so much of it was wrong, and so much of it was terrible.

las palabras son casi siempre retóricas o excesivas o metafóricas y por lo tanto inexactas

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Well, for starters, Abraham Lincoln didn't write 'To Kill a Mockingbird.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

Historically inaccurate.' Adrian gestured at me with his other hand, the one not on my shoulder. "Who the hell looks at you and says 'historically inaccurate'?

That which is above all to be shunned," said the philosopher, "is the encroachment of discouragement, the result of repeated failures. "Rare are those who wish to admit their mistakes. "In the structure of the mind, inaccuracy brings a partial deviation from the truth, and it does not take long for this slight error to generalize itself, if not corrected by its natural reformer — common sense.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Alex consistently distorts or misperceives situations so that they reinforce his lifetrap. His view of situations is inaccurate: he feels people are attacking and humiliating him even when they are not. He has a strong bias to interpret events as proving he is defective, exaggerating the negative and minimizing the positive.

My predictions are notably inaccurate.

He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done.