Quotes About Accuracy

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

Sometimes careful just isn't good enough.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong

Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.

I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

One of the books scheduled for adoption, she pointed out, informed children that the United States had settled its conflict in Korea by "using the bomb." This apparent reference to nonexistent nuclear warfare was just one of 231 factual errors cited by conservative critics whose

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose public records to be true.

the safest course seemed to be to stay within the sources of their own time, written at the moment by those who knew the men and witnessed their acts, and as much as possible to use the directly contemporary writings of the men themselves

thermometer n. digital fever computer

As the Italian proverb says, 'Translators are traitors.' At some level we all are traitors to the text, saying a little less than the Greek says (thus leaving some meaning behind) or a little more (when trying to clarify). Under- and over-translation. A good reason to learn Greek and Hebrew, and an even better reason to read more than one translation.