Quotes About Inaccuracy

Officials are human beings, and sometimes we all make mistakes.

Why, Hurst couldn't have hit the side of Westminster Abbey with a pistol, even by throwing the silly thing.

If there's ever a question about anything, you can always count on me to get it wrong.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature inaccurate.

Es mejor estar equivocado que ser impreciso. —FREEMAN DYSON

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

I have also known of weight estimates by ultrasound to be off by as much as five pounds.

Smith's interpretation was wrong.

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

Nothing is completely wrong in this world even the clock which has stopped working is correct twice a day.

One could see that the ideas which the mediaeval artist and the mediaeval peasant (who had survived to cook for us in the nineteenth century) had of classical and of early Christian history, ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

This modern craze for biographical information leaves me cold for many reasons. For one thing, it's always inaccurate; for another, it's so bound up with publicity and other varieties of idiocy that it gags a person of any sensibility. For another, to be heralded is to become a candidate for the newest list of "the busted geniuses of yester-year" of whom I hope never to be one.

In Surprised by Joy Lewis notes how his father, Albert, was fond of telling anecdotes about Sir John Mahaffy, anecdotes which Lewis later (at Oxford) found attached to Benjamin Jowett. This, alas, is the fate of any great figure: to serve as a convenient magnet for stories or quotations that other people want to perpetuate, however inaccurately.

Memory, if it is anything at all, is unreliable.

Las traducciones son meras aproximaciones subjetivas. Y eso es todo lo que experimento respecto a cuanto digo: no es lo que estoy pensando sino lo máximo que puedo aproximarme a lo que pienso por medio del lenguaje, con sus defectuosas y constrictivas reducciones. Y por eso a menudo pienso que es mejor no decir nada que expresarme de una manera inexacta.