Orson Scott Card Quotes

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Even fools are right sometimes.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

You can not define being exactly on time.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

No one is always right.

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know when and in which direction!

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.

I always know what time it is.

If you throw the ball 60 times, you are going to make miss some of them. That kind of happens.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

An exact science is one that admits loss.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.