Inaccuracy Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount…
— Jo Brand
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,…
— Jean Cocteau
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to…
— George Bernard Shaw
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While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.…
— Bob Hawke
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
— Tryon Edwards
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If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You…
— David Bronstein
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The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias,…
— Robert Bork
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an…
— Richard Avedon
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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
— Charlotte Bronte
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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
— Orson Scott Card
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If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole…
— Tom Chatfield
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
— Tryon Edwards
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
— H H Munro
Who Wrote These Inaccuracy Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Inaccuracy Quotes as follows: