Darren Remington Quotes

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

I may not be smart enough to debate you point-for-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Facts just don’t mean anything anymore. It’s who shouts the loudest and repeats it the most.

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively challenging. I think that leads people to accept truly false news without examining it, without being analytical.

We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

Citizens have long been easily influenced by the opinions of others and sought social proof, but social media have amplified the phenomena to unprecedented heights. As digital devices permeate every aspect of our lives, it has boosted the way in which information can distort truth.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Even intelligent people succumb to their own propaganda.

You don't change anybody's mind with political humor. You just reinforce what people already believe.

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.

It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his tribal identity depends on his not understanding it.

Who wants to hear that he is wrong when he can be told that he is right? …. We are losing the ability to change our mind because of our media.

The assembly has witnessed how historical truth is established. Once an allegation is repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation. It is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

Search engines take misinformation and put it into our echo chamber. Trying to counter it is the functional equivalent of having your hair full of honey and bees and your trying to whack the bees with your hands.

If people tell an untruth long enough and loud enough, they begin to believe it themselves.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.