Top 1200 Historical Accuracy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

I found boxing so, so easy with incredible power, speed, and accuracy.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

HB-Shizzle's gonna be honest with ya, okay. To hit these bad boys, you have to have pinpoint accuracy.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

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

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis and careers are growing. However, since there is much more variety in romance today, the total sales of historicals might be down from their peak. The talk of the market softening is a reflection of this, and of the fact that one does not see big growth in this area of the market.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

For film, I think because it's more detailed, and especially with historical material, you really have to find the right projects. Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. When people think of 'dual heritage,' they think it's a modern concept, but really it's not.

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with the validity of the philosopher's positions. I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two entirely distinct matters and not to be confused with one another. And yet that firm distinction doesn't lead me to endorse the usual way in which history of philosophy is presented.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.

Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.

Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!

I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

I have one idiosyncrasy that helps my driving accuracy. I grip down on the club. This makes it easier to control the clubface.

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

Later, I went one step further, by putting in some invented "historical" bits [into the Lincoln in the Bardo]. And reading those alongside the actual historical bits was like looking into a sort of a painful mirror, because "my" parts were so show-offy at first. They stood out because they were so flamboyant.

The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver.

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.