Quotes About Accuracy

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I am Rose Howard and my first name has a homonym. To be accurate, it has a homophone, which is a word that's pronounced the same as another word but spelled differently.

Pero el mentiroso deber recordar lo que dijo, y a quién; y debe cuidarse de mantener las falsedades para el futuro.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ( On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers )

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

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

It's hard to do, I said. Wes looked at me. What is? I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. Get it right.

Facts always are sensational.

But never being wrong is no proof that the method of testing is sound for all cases

La coherencia es el mejor marcador de la verdad del que disponemos, por imperfecto que sea.

If all you know is how many times someone hit a target, it is loserthink to judge how accurate they are. You also need to know how many times they missed.

Dealing with experts is always tricky. Are they honest? Are they competent? How often are they right? My observation and best guess is that experts are right about 98 percent of the time on the easy stuff but only right 50 percent of the time on anything that is unusually complicated, mysterious, or even new. Years

Stop to consider why your judgement might be wrong.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

But he is so exceedingly accurate, that, if he only fancies he has said a word too precipitate, or too general, or only half true, he never ceases to qualify, to modify, and extenuate, till at last he appears to have said nothing at all.

Wer das erste Knopfloch verfehlt, kommt mit dem Zuknöpfen nicht zu Rande.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Widely disseminated disinformation is as good as information until discredited.

Filters fail when they know us too well and when they don't know us well enough.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.