Lindsay Ellis Quotes

I'm very wary of news on television.

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 have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

Don't believe everything you read.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

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!

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

YouTubers are not taken as seriously as the written press, which is strange.

Nobody should believe something just because an intelligence agent says it.

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

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

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

You can't believe everything you read. It's never been more true.

Don't take advice you see on the Internet too seriously!

I don't believe everything I read.

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.

If journalism is sometimes inaccurate and often inadequate, ignorance would not be preferable.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

If the American public were accurately polled, I suspect the results would find Bonnie & Clyde, Bill Clinton, Ponzi Scheme scamster Bernie Madoff, and the infamous Wily Coyoteto be believed to be more honest and trustworthy than Hillary Clinton.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.