D. A. Carson Quotes

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

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

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

It's hard to pin down precise dates on these things.

It is exactness I aim at, and would not have the least mistake, if possible, pass to the world. If I have unhappily fallen into any, it is through inadvertency only

In the intelligence business you are almost never completely wrong or completely right.

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

In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?

I just don't like making mistakes.

With snooker, having three months off could have a huge long-term effect on your game. It's not like football, where there's a huge margin of error with touch and passing and shooting. With snooker you're talking about millimetre precision and your technique can vary a lot if you don't retain muscle memory.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.