Robert S. Bennett Quotes

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Intelligence involves analysis of raw reports, not merely their enumeration or weighing them by the pound. Analysis, in turn, involves finding independent means of corroborating the reports.

When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

I'm a guy that verifies before he trusts.

You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.

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.

Don't trust, just verify.

Trust, but verify.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

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.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

You can never trust what you read.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Don't believe everything you read.