Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the le...
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. - Hesketh Pearson
"There are 1,010,300 words in the English language, ...
"There are 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never find a combination of words to accurately describe how much I want to hit you with a chair."
“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can nev...
“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
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can nev...
"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
What a wonderful world it would be if the simplistic ...
What a wonderful world it would be if the simplistic view were accurate: that human beings need only negative consequences to teach them hard lessons. -Dr. Gabor Maté
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can nev...
"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
"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly...
"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately...you usually don't use it at all. It uses you." - Eckhart Tolle
“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph...
“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” – Richard Avedon (American photographer)
People who count their chickens before they are hatche...
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately - Oscar Wilde
"Analysis is all about the quality of collection, not the quantity of it and to a lesser e...
"Analysis is all about the quality of collection, not the quantity of it and to a lesser extent the method by which the collected data is analyzed. The mean of 5 accurate data points is exponentially more likely to be found true than the mean of a million skewed data points."
"It was the most accurate and least factual account of tha...
"It was the most accurate and least factual account of that campaign." -- McGovern campaign strategist Frank Mankiewicz on Hunter S. Thompson's coverage of the 1972 presidential race