Quotes About Accuracy

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Leaving out isn't the same as lying.

When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he's 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal.

contemporary reports are not always completely accurate and reminiscences are not necessarily flawed.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?

Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year.

If you are playing a Hispanic character who has to speak in dialect or in an accent, nail that dialect or accent. When I hear a character that's supposed to be Cuban speaking with a Mexican accent or vice versa, it grates on me and immediately pulls me out of the story.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

As far as tech videos go, we try to present things as realistically as possible.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

If a doctor has worked through the problem well, there's a very good chance that one of these possible diagnoses will be right. The rest though, by definition, will be wrong. We are regularly wrong in the pursuit of being right. … The question we are taught to ask ourselves is, if it isn't that, what else could it be?

Basically you start this process from the bottom up. In other words, you check your balances in sub-ledgers or journals to be sure they are correct.

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Always get the facts first. You can distort them later.

You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.

Let me be clear that I never offered House Astor an insult... Nor did I insult Reginald. I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern.

I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern." A

I thought God gave everyone free will," I said. "Which presumably—and evidently—includes the freedom to be incorrect when translating one language into another.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally. - Harry Dresden