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Quotes About Accuracy

could be stretching the truth
~ M. William Phelps
Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
~ John Dryden
Focused ultrasound utilizes intersecting beams of high-frequency sound concentrated accurately and precisely on tissue deep in the body, much as sunlight passing through a magnifying glass can be focused to burn a hole in a leaf.
~ John Grisham
It's not slander if it's true.
~ John Grisham
There is no justice without truth. P.D. East
~ John Howard Griffin
You oughta carry a calculator," Emma told him, "or at least write everything down.
~ John Irving
But it is a common mistake to emphasise what you can measure at the expense of more important things that you can't. It is generally better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.
~ John Kay
The only purpose of economic forecasts is to give astrology a better image.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.
~ John Knowles
Pedants should be aware that the English name for the world's highest mountain should be spoken aloud as EEV-uh-rest, not EV-uh-rest.
~ John Lloyd
Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.
~ John M. Barry
Nothing in science is as damning as the inability of an outside experimenter to reproduce results.
~ John M. Barry
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
~ Charles Babbage
Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.
~ Alexander Gardner
Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.
~ Adrian Rogers
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.
~ Pope Pius IX
To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Maggie Haberman
~ Unknown
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
~ Unknown
The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.
~ Malorie Blackman
I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
~ Marc Jacobs
Extra Full - 45 yards. Full - 40 yards. Modified - 35 yards. Improved Cylinder - 30 yards. Cylinder - 25 Yards.
~ John Owen