Gerald F. Lieberman Quotes

I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

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

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.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

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.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

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.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

You can never trust what you read.

I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

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.

I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.

But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

I should never go with rumors because they're often not correct.

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.