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Quotes About Accuracy

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.
~ Christiane Amanpour
If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.
~ John Lydon
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
~ Bob Kane
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
~ John Legend
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
~ Blaise Pascal
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
~ Nate Silver
Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.
~ Virginia H. Pearce
There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend
~ Trudi Canavan
Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit
~ Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.
~ John L'Heureux
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
~ Shelby Foote
The truth just happens - lies take time to make.
~ Michael Cudlitz
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
~ William James
Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying.
~ Dave Kopel
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.
~ John Ziman
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
~ Mark Frost
Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.
~ Justin Raimondo
I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.
~ Barbara Boxer
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
~ Chuck Close
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
~ Stephen Covey