Quotes About Accuracy

What you hear of me is more a reflection of the speaker than the woman spoken of, especially with regard to my motives. No one can speak for another's heart. Certainly no one ever spoke with accuracy for mine!

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

One of the things I think about is if you were to take a history book and pull the bullshit out of it, find the truth, snatch out all the bullshit that's in there, then you're going to wind up with two or three pages.

But a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

One could prefix the words deranged lunatic insists to any headline, and only increase its accuracy. It's practically implied, and the reading public would hardly read the little phrase as a disclaimer these days.

As a "Rule of Thumb", Psychologists use 95% certainty as being acceptable. They allow a 5% chance of being wrong. If possible, they prefer 99% certainty, i.e. only 1% chance of being wrong. This is why Psychological research is usually expressed statistically….

just because a test or measurement is reliable doesn't mean it's valid.

I am so hip even my errors are correct.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.

Ha a történelem igazán tudományos, akkor semmi olyat nem tud mondani, amire érdemes lenne odafigyelni. Ha pedig megpróbálja betölteni azt a szerepet, amelynek korábbi fontosságát köszönhette, vagyis értelmezi a múltat a jelen számára, ez esetben amit igazságként mutat be, a legjobb esetben is csak becslés, olykor pedig egyenesen tévedés.

any specific teaching that contradicts a teaching of the Bible is false.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

An epitaph should speak the truth.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true.

If you are going to use white man's words to describe yourself, 'avatar' is more accurate than 'walker.

These labels, usually not carefully chosen or given much thought, go on to form your beliefs. These are hazards with relatively accurate and descriptive labels—what about when you unwittingly use labels that are ambiguous, inconsistent, or inaccurate?

If prophecy were pure, it would be fact, but it is not. And yet how it drives us, even when all I have ever seen is that the only prophecy that has any accuracy—any purity —is the one that self-fulfils...Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so? In the fear that I always try to hide in my heart, I wonder if there is even a difference.

how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.

History is not acceptable until it has been sifted for the truth.