Quotes About Accuracy

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

I'm not perfect, but I'm the truth.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Photography is the truth if it's being handled by a truthful person.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

His doubts recall Benford's Law, a theory about the frequency with which digits will appear in data. One implication of this law is that datasets with lots of zeroes at the end often turn out to be fraudulent.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Half the evils of the world come from inaccuracy.