Wayne Knight Quotes

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.

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

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

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

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

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

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

I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.

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.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

If something is not immediately and vigorously denied, and is repeated over and over again, it becomes a fact because it ends up on Google.

Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

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.

Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

I think what I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera on air are not particularly believed and quite often not true and its an extraordinary position to be in when you've had WhatsApp messages, text messages off record.

There's so much active misinformation and it's packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true - as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

Rumors are always out there.