A Quote by Frederick Lenz

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
American - Author
February 9, 1950 - April 12, 1998

But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

Charles Lindbergh

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

Douglas Adams

It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Reality is hopelessly inaccurate.

Douglas Adams

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Douglas Adams

Some people should have more levels of maturity than others, but you know to have a show that's grounded, tethered to reality, if you follow a group of people for six years and you show no maturity, I think that would be inaccurate.

Alex Karpovsky

As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability to provide the best and most trusted services in the world if they actually desire to do so.

Edward Snowden

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

Vera John-Steiner

We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power any candidate can be trusted with.

James Bovard

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Mark Forsyth

...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

Joseph Pearce

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

Dan Simmons

I learned a lot from hanging out with Emmylou Harris. One of the biggest pointers she gave me was that if you don't know the words, drop the consonants: that way, you'll hide the sound.

Patty Griffin

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Andre Maurois

An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

Louis Sullivan

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

Carl Rogers

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