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Inaccuracy Quotes

Richard Avedon quote: "There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All..."
There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Richard Avedon
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its..."
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester Charlotte Bronte
Orson Scott Card quote: "I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence..."
I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. Orson Scott Card
At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher. James Thurber
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
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them... Marcel Proust
Hector Hugh Munro quote: "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. Hector Hugh Munro
Tryon Edwards quote: "Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth;..."
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. Tryon Edwards
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of..."
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. Jean Cocteau
Samuel Butler quote: "I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. Samuel Butler
You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there. Steven Seagal

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