Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

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

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.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

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

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

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

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

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

League-wide, 99 percent of the rumors are just way off base.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.

There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

The best information from the leading medical and health scientists and experts in the country was dead wrong.

… fear false knowledge

People usually tend to believe grim words rather than positive ones.

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

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.