John Kasich Quotes

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.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Because I don't believe everything I read.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

Don't believe everything you read.

One of the first things we should teach every student is not to believe everything they read and hear.

In Washington, excessive cynicism is the most prevalent form of naivete. I just wish reporters were as skeptical about bad news as they are about good news.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.

I don't believe everything I read.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

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.

I think if you use Twitter and social media as your main source of information you are an idiot, but I think most people who use it know better, so I kind of enjoy it.

I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."