Jimmy Wales Quotes

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

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

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.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.

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

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

When you're getting your facts from people, consider the way that they are being given to you.

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

I don't believe everything I read.

I think that any time you are making a film you have to realize that the people you are talking with might be giving you misinformation. Sometimes it is factually incorrect and for that, it's important to me to check it out and not let things find their way into the film without being challenged, either by me, or by another character, or by evidence that you might see on screen.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.