Inexactness Quotes

Round numbers are always false.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

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

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

I should think it hardly possible to state the opposite of the truth with more precision.

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

Come on, we're teenagers. Everything that comes out of our mouth is something that's off. You never say something that's perfect.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Astrology is interesting but not very accurate. It's a science I don't trust very much.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.