Quotes about Accuracy

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

In everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never challenged. They can, instead, be frozen in place, no matter how flawed they are, or become a work in continual artistic revision.

Exactitude is not truth.

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be

The carpenter's rule is "measure twice, cut once.

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be. Correct maps will infinitely impact our personal and interpersonal effectiveness far more than any amount of effort expended on changing our attitudes and behaviors.

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.