Inaccurate Information Quotes

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Errors using inadequate data are much like those using no data at all.

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

Error is worse than ignorance.

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

My sources are unreliable but their information is fascinating

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

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

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.

The Internet is filled with so-called experts who couldn't lace up a pair of boots.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

When a PR person asks why is it a big deal that they got your name wrong or sent you a pitch on something you would never cover, it's because when you get hundreds of those a day, it's incredibly annoying. It's basically like having telemarketers call you all day long for something you never want to buy.

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.