Best 89 quotes in «accurate quotes» category

The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.

The only safe guide is the Bible. It is the revelation of a God who has infinite knowledge and can therefore give you absolute truth. God has given you a revelation that is robust and complete. It presents an accurate and comprehensive picture of children, parents, family life, values, training, nurture, and discipline - all you need to be equipped for the task of parenting.

the past was a worthless human ability that had evolved for the sole purpose of reminding mortals of their mistakes.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

I don't see Jian [Ghomeshi] as an enemy. What [Marie Henein] was saying about how I hate him - I'm like, that's not accurate.

I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

I think if you look back at my projections and my prognostications, they turn out to be very, very accurate.

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

Only accurate rifles are interesting

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

Silence is so accurate.

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Order - the accurate arrangement of things - increases productivity. Productivity decides rewards.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.