Umberto Eco Quotes

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

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

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

I'm very wary of news on television.

We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

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

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.

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.

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.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.