Elise Andrew Quotes

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

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

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

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.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

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

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible.

I’m opposed to passing laws based on phony science.

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.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

What I don't like is talk about rumours.