Accuracy Quotes

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Wallace Stevens

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Charles Simmons

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Oscar Wilde

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The rule of accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem it always helps if you know the answer.

John Peer

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth

Anna Jameson

The game of life is like the game of boomerangs, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy

Florence Scovel Shinn

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Saul Bellow

Precision, accuracy and pondering in wisdom and sciences, will nourish and develop a person's brain.

Jafar ibn Muhammad as-S

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

Carl Bernstein

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Saul Bellow
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