Daniel Levitin Quotes

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.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Even a conscientious person cannot reach reasonable political conclusions without trustworthy, factual information.

One of the first things we should teach every student is not to believe everything they read and hear.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.

I always recommend navigating the landscape and understanding where it's coming from, so don't get your media from just one source; get it from a variety of different sources but understand the bias and the source.

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

I think if you use Twitter and social media as your main source of information you are an idiot, but I think most people who use it know better, so I kind of enjoy it.

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.

You can't believe everything you read.

I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was absolutely brutal and I was terrified - was so important, especially later in life when one was faced with conflicting stories and conflicting evidence.

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

Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

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.

Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.

We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

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.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

Like the saying goes, don't believe everything you read.