Quotes About Inaccuracy

Even a broken watch is correct twice a day.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

If I could have remembered, at least some of the words would have been wrong: like hearing again a half-remembered favorite tale from childhood and finding it unsatisfying, or at least not as I'd remembered it.

wrong, Miss Drew

Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.

for one hundred years people have believed that the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad did in fact conclude that "corporations are persons." But this book will show that the Court never stated this: it was added by the court reporter who wrote the introduction to the decision, a commentary called a headnote.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

As George Orwell noted in 1946, "A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, and then fall all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Old creature with a sore leg (reference to Elizabeth I- he was incorrectly told she limped because of a varicose vein)

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

I've kind of gotten mad over the years, reading different Punisher stories and seeing multiple Punisher movies. Nobody gets the character right.

He said the Iroquois was "completed and OK." Neither of those things were true.

Poate c? este timpul s? v? fac portretul lui Jasmin; dar în întuneric- fiindc? ferestrele nu se deschid niciodat?, de vreme ce Jasmin nu exist? È™i, prin urmare, nu poate avea mam?, ceea ce este incontestabil, dup? cum v? va dovedi urmarea acestei poveÈ™ti- în întuneric, deci, descrierea nu ar fi exact?.

Being ninety nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.

Oh! dear me, the mystery of life; The inaccuracy of thought! The ignorance of humanity! To show how very little control of our possessions we have—what an accidental affair this living is after all our civilization—let me just count over a few of the things lost in one lifetime, beginning, for that seems always the most mysterious of losses—

Oh! dear me, the mystery of life; The inaccuracy of thought! The ignorance of humanity!

My narrative may be invaded by inaccuracy and confusion; but if I live no longer, I will, at least, live to complete it. What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?

Miss Quote is so inaccurate She never gets it right; Miss Attribute does so too Forever wrongly cite, Spreading literary blight!

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

Hey, did you know that in the parking diagram on Tampa International's website, they misspelled Lindbergh's name? Instills that confidence in flying.

I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

My memory of that day is like television itself, sharp and clear but unreliable.

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.