Quotes About Accuracy

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

History is no criminal court

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

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

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.