Frank A. Clark Quotes

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

You can never trust what you read.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Don't believe everything you read.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

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

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.