Bill Belichick Quotes

Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

We in the Defense Department want to know what we are talking about when we provide information so it will take some time longer for us to get all the information.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not.

The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.

I think it's important for the American people to be thoughtful consumers of information and to think about the sources of it and to think about the support and predication for what they hear.

We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.

Intelligence is to provide the facts to us. The facts will usually take you to the truth. And then, when we get the truth, we have got to make the decisions and do what's best for this country.

You can't believe everything you read.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work