#accuracy

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#generations #humor #humor

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cleverness #intelligence #smart #stupidity #understanding

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗

— Stacy Schiff

#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ↗

— Xenophon

#everything #fast #fine

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#detail #instances #memories #objectively #remarkable

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#brother #dishonesty #honesty #inaccuracy #twin

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

#advantageous #beauty #case #delicate #every

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

#carefully #checks #continue #i #i think

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #admirable #been #child #elevation

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. ↗

— Martha Beck

#blind #dead #each #lets #love