Accurate Quotes

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde

Age, Woman, Her

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Art, Through

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Cynicism, Commonly

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
Napoleon Hill

Judge, Person, Him

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne Dyer

Yourself, Put, Unhappy

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Tony Robbins

Whether, Act, View

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.
Clint Eastwood

Mind, Reality, Person

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling

Woman, Guess, Certainty

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mind, Often, Insanity

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead

Worth, Sum, Add

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Claudia Black

Trust, Yourself, Often

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

Best, Science, Sense

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
Christopher Hitchens

Beautiful, Between, Difficult

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie

Life, Through, Child

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley

Training, Child, Plan

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

Life, Around, Artist

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Edward Hopper

Nature, Value, Expression

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm

Give, Far, Less

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

History, Black, Idea

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Lee Iacocca

Men, Business, Knowledge

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
Stephen Fry

Future, Spirit, Style

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
Louis C. K.

Comedy, Approach, Mess

Silence is so accurate.
Mark Rothko

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
Herman Cain

Bad, Social, Security

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Someone, Playing, Lived

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
Arthur Miller

Great, Problem, Rather

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
Bram Stoker

Long, Everything, May

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
Dan Rather

Country, Big, Weather

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
J. C. Watts

Everything, Said, American

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Time, Art, Made

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