Quotes About Accuracy

have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to

I think it makes not one bit of difference if those words came from the soul of Annaliese Schmidt or from the inside of my own brain. I think it only matters if the words are right.

I've a devil of a habit for being right.

You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?' 'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.

However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.

Il problema con i luoghi comuni è che, purtroppo, spesso dicono la verità. In modo grossolano, ma la dicono.

He estimates the number of deaths worldwide as 100 million, a larger number than the conventional estimate of 20 to 40 million. But, he said, 20 million people died in India alone, making it impossible for the 20 to 40 million figure to be correct.

Beliefs can't change reality, even though they change one's experience of it. To be helpful, beliefs have to reflect reality accurately. The ego tries to change reality with its faulty beliefs—its shoulds and coulds—while the hero doesn't bother with beliefs that aren't true. He knows that only the ones that stand up to experience and match reality work and are useful.

Virtually everything we told you about the healthcare bill now has proven to be true, and nearly everything they told you was a lie.

No wonder oral history turns out to be more accurate than written history. The first is handed down from the many who were present. The second is written by the few who probably weren't.

The truth is the most underrated thing on earth, falsity the most overrated. Albeit indirectly.

Historians must, of course, present both sides of the argument, but they do not have to be neutral. I hope that I have treated the facts, as far as they can be determined with accuracy, as sacred, but I cannot hide my conviction

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.

An historian is an unsuccessful novelist.

I eyed him. Are you really Jamaican? He returned my gaze evenly. Why do you think I'm not, sistah? I don't know, I said. I have to admit, pretty much everything I know about Jamaica comes from watching Cool Runnings , and I'm guessing a Disney movie about Olympic bobsledders isn't the most accurate reference material.

In depicting the Indian background, do not commit these traditional errors: Do not show them on war parties in full regalia. I judge from what I have read that Indians in their everyday occupations looked pretty much like students at the Boulder campus of Colorado University today, except that the Indians may have been somewhat cleaner.

My captain will help you be very quick. Within three sticks." The unit of time was the time it took for a standard stick of incense to smolder away, approximately one hour for one stick.

The earth's round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to do this accurately twenty years ago. It's the first accurate world map.