Voltaire Quotes

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

When you are responsible for telling the truth, you must take the time to find out what the truth is…. To find out the truth takes weeks. It takes only 5 minutes for a wrong message to travel around the entire globe.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing

League-wide, 99 percent of the rumors are just way off base.

The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.