Brendan Myers Quotes

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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 is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The longer you hold a belief, the less likely it is to be true.

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

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.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.

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

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

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.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

The line between science and magic becomes blurred so that public judgments on technical issues can be erratic or badly flawed. It frequently appears that some people will believe almost anything. Thus judgments can be manipulated or warped by unscrupulous groups. Distortions or outright falsehoods can come to be accepted as fact.

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!

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.