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Quotations regarding 'Accuracy'

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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
Martha Beck, American Author (1962-  )
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow, American Novelist (1914-2005)
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.
Carl Bernstein, American Journalist (1944-  )
I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
Jack Brickhouse, American Celebrity (1916-1998)
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Wyatt Earp, American Public Servant (1848-1929)
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist (1850-1909)
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Tryon Edwards, American Theologian
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
Lion Feuchtwanger, German Novelist (1884-1958)
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner, American Psychologist (1943-  )
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist (1931-  )
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist (1804-1864)
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
David Hume, Scottish Philosopher (1711-1776)
We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
Asa Hutchinson, American Lawyer (1950-  )
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley, English Scientist (1825-1895)
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Anna Jameson, British Writer (1794-1860)
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
Denis Johnson, German Writer
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben Jonson, English Poet (1572-1637)
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian (1884-1968)
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
Yuan T. Lee, Chinese Scientist (1936-  )
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
Henry Martyn, English Clergyman (1781-1812)
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