Thucydides Quotes

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

You can never trust what you read.

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.

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Don't believe everything you read.

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

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.

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

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

Facts are incidental if not accidental, and the problem that we have as a society is that there is a significant number of people who have grown up in a different information environment ... surrounded by much more information, but whose provenance is not clear.... The rumors will be believed; the fiction will be thought of as fact; and the political agendas, among other agendas, will be influenced by interest groups who are coming from some quite strange trajectory to issues based on collective understanding that is founded on falsity.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

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.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

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.

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.