Quotes about Accuracy

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.

But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going to acknowledge that he got them wrong, so therefore he was not going to get that approval. This meant, next best thing, that he had to be aggressively defended against the media's disapproval.

The point is this. Paul's letters are highly energetic. Filling translations of his works with stodgy, chewy words and phrases will give the reader indigestion. They may be 'accurate' in one sense, but they are inaccurate in another. Such challenges mean that translation remains exciting, demanding and never-ending.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.

You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.