Inaccurate Quotes
81 quotes by 75 authors
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
— Douglas Adams
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If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.
— Eli Broad
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Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
— Herman Cain
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The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and…
— Wolfgang Ostwald
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Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human…
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is…
— Colin Archibald Russell
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The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more…
— Will Eisner
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On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves.…
— Benjamin Bratt
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In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.
— Douglas Adams
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Accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that…
— Charles Lindbergh
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To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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My predictions are notably inaccurate
— Robert Caro
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How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from…
— Edwin Way Teale
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A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
— Frank Luntz
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about…
— Taiye Selasi
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You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
— Nora Ephron
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But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was…
— Richard Posner
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A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a…
— Paul Keres
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For somebody to take a shot at him is totally disappointing and hurtful to my family, my mother, his wife and child. For Dianne to…
— Rick Hendrick
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The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
— William Strunk, Jr.
Who Wrote These Inaccurate Quotes
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