Accurate Quotes

479 Accurate quotes by 404 unique authors

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I’m ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these… — Derek Landy
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough,… — Terry Pratchett
And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you… — J R Ward
If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. — Albert Einstein
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most… — Augusten Burroughs
The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads. — Gian Fulgoni
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. — William James
As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from… — Henry Parry Liddon
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. — Ken Burns
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar… — Mark Twain
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest… — Lord Kelvin
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process… — Stephen Jay Gould
Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the… — Anthony Goldbloom
I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match… — Nacho Figueras
Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this… — Howard Rheingold
Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find… — Howard Rheingold
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a… — Pat Barker
I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more… — Steve Martin
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique… — Glenn Greenwald
Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ,… — Monica Johnson
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the… — Edward Rutherfurd
In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis… — Andy Behrman

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