Inaccuracies Quotes

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

Historians have to deal with facts and they are committed to the facts. The trouble is that facts are imperfect. The novelist comes up with an imaginary structure. This is not what happened. It is what could have happened. And sometimes this brings more understanding …

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

[Referring to the Pentagon:] It's a mammoth place that makes an incredible number of mistakes.

Slash and I hadn't talked in 19 years, and when we did talk, I was like, 'You wrote a lot of stuff that didn't even happen. It's not real.'

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

League-wide, 99 percent of the rumors are just way off base.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

Trump has made claims about himself - about his charitable giving, his business success, even the size of the crowd at his inauguration - that are not supported by the facts.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws

Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.

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