Michael Crichton Quotes

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.

Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.

The President of the United States should be very careful about the veracity of his public assertions.

Through over-long contention the truth is lost

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Just shouting about 'facts' will get you nowhere with those who no longer trust the sources that produce them.

The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.

All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors.

So when someone, a veteran stands up and say, "Here are the facts on the VA." He [Donald Trump] says, "No, your facts are wrong." Turns out her facts are right and his facts are wrong.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact - but sometimes its very hard to do that.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

Like the saying goes, don't believe everything you read.

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.

I think more and more people are starting to understand that you can't believe half of everything you read or what you see. There are so many information outlets that are available that it's almost too much, there is so much misinformation out there.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.