accuracy quotes

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

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