Quotes About Accuracy

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

Any lie should be as close to the truth as possible.

The truth always stays the same.

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.

I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

If it comes from Tom Hauser, it's the truth.

I believe in telling the truth.

I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

Is not the truth the truth?

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

It is not enough to speak but to speak truth

"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."