Between memory and reality there are awkward…

“She is more memory than reality. She belongs to a time of teenage crushes, first kisses, crowded lecture halls and smoky pubs. Even if…

— Michael Robotham

The brain abhors discrepancies.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness…

— Edgard Varese

The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren…

— Vincent Bugliosi

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the…

— Rudyard Kipling

We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left…

— Christopher Lasch

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will…

— Judith M Bardwick

Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case,…

— Charlie Munger

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which…

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are…

— Gavin Schmidt

There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And I'm old…

— Lawrence Weiner

My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it, but my…

— Chris Rock

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

— Edward Jay Epstein

Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men;…

— William John Macquorn Rankine