Top 25 Accuracy Quotes of 32

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

Christopher Langan

Accuracy, Willing, Universe

May my silences become more accurate.

Theodore Roethke

Silence, May, Accuracy

Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.95, Copper Canyon Press

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

Niels Bohr

Clarity, Accuracy, Exclusive

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

Saul Bellow

Oppression, Accuracy, Suppression

The Adventures of Augie March ch. 1 (1953)

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Douglas MacArthur

Tricks, Accuracy, Accurate

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

Adrian Rogers

Biblical Worldview, Faith In God, Accuracy

Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.8, B&H Publishing Group

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Essentials, Accuracy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.351, Modern Library

Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.

Larry Sanger

Quality, Determined, Accuracy

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

Arthur Nielsen

Details, Watches, Accuracy

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

Thomas R. Marshall

May, Type, Accuracy

"Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall: A Hoosier Salad" by Thomas R. Marshall, (Ch. XVI), 1925.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

Henry Martyn

Magic, Cases, Accuracy

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Language, Accuracy

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.63

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hugh Kingsmill

Mind, Shapes, Accuracy

Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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

Samuel Johnson

Writing, Degrees, Accuracy

'The Bravery of the English Common Soldier' in 'The British Magazine' January 1760 (Yale ed., vol. 10, p. 281)

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

Walther Nernst

Science, Should, Accuracy

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

Hugh Blair

Thinking, Order, Accuracy

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

Dean Williams

Investing, Information, Accuracy

Try to be accurate about stuff.

Anne Enright

Trying, Stuff, Accuracy

"Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Maya Lin

Remember, Accuracy, Ifs

Some films do portray women in their 40s well, and some other films don't. Some films are written by women, so maybe there's a little more accuracy there.

Julie Delpy

Littles, Film, Accuracy

"Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.