Anne Enright Quotes

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

I state facts all the time.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

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

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

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

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

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

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

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

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

Without facts you can't have truth.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts