Karl Pilkington Quotes

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

Information is bad for knowledge.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

I find [Donald Trump] to be a vile human being - one that lies so often, so casually, and with such confidence, that fact-checkers actually cannot keep up.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

Ted Cruz has been playing an ad about me that is so ridiculously false, no basis in fact. Take ad down, Ted. Biggest liar in politics.