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 AvedonTags: truth art photography perspective portraits accuracy inaacuracy portraiture
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."
(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)
Tags: expression accuracy conciseness
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTags: accuracy
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard KiplingTags: certainty gender men women accuracy guesses
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: writing sherlock-holmes consistency facts accuracy details dramatic-effect
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand RussellTags: intelligence stupidity understanding smart accuracy cleverness
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to atoms between the upper and nether millstones of Hitlerism and Stalinism. One of the most objective chroniclers is Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University. In his view, it is still 'Operation Reinhardt,' or the planned destruction of Polish Jewry, that is to be considered as the centerpiece of what we commonly call the Holocaust, in which of the estimated 5.7 million Jewish dead, 'roughly three million were prewar Polish citizens.' We should not at all allow ourselves to forget the millions of non-Jewish citizens of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and other Slav territories who were also massacred. But for me the salient fact remains that anti-Semitism was the regnant, essential, organizing principle of all the other National Socialist race theories. It is thus not to be thought of as just one prejudice among many.
Christopher HitchensTags: honesty history bravery prejudice antisemitism historians holocaust racism accuracy jews russia poland nazism ukraine national-socialism stalinism massacre 1989 belarus berlin-wall operation-reinhard polish-jews slavic-peoples timothy-d-snyder yale-university
In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about an individual. Similarly, no life is ever lived according to aesthetic proportions. The "plot" of a biography is superficially based on the birth, life and death of the subject; "character," in the vision of the author. Both are as much creations of the biographer, as they are of a novelist. We content ourselves with "authorized fictions.
Ira B. NadelAnd in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
Stacy SchiffTags: history myth accuracy facts-and-ideas
They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.
Neal StephensonTags: humor generations accuracy
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