Tom Colicchio Quotes

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

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.

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.

It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

Public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice

People usually tend to believe grim words rather than positive ones.

Do not believe just because you want to believe.

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

We have to challenge lies. We have to challenge falsehoods and conspiracy theories. If you don't, they fester - unchecked and unchallenged.

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

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.