Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The sad thing about facebook is it's more accurate than the weather man. — Kayla Zmayefski Copy Share Image
All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work. — Hiroyuki Nishimura Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto. — Arthur Mattuck Copy Share Image
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. — Herbert Bayard Swope Copy Share Image
“I think you know what I mean, Chase. My gaydar certainly isn't a hundred percent, but it's usually pretty damn accurate.” — Ann Lister Copy Share Image
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un,… — Lee Myung-bak Copy Share Image
I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose… — Lindley Murray Copy Share Image
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings… — William Appleman Williams Copy Share Image
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
