Unverified Information Quotes

Never believe anything until it has officially been denied.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Rumor is not always wrong

When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

Rumors are always out there.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

I don't want to defend rumors. It's certainly nothing new. The only development in recent years is the [lower] threshold at which news organizations will print rumors.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Facts are incidental if not accidental, and the problem that we have as a society is that there is a significant number of people who have grown up in a different information environment ... surrounded by much more information, but whose provenance is not clear.... The rumors will be believed; the fiction will be thought of as fact; and the political agendas, among other agendas, will be influenced by interest groups who are coming from some quite strange trajectory to issues based on collective understanding that is founded on falsity.

Conspiracy theories are good to look at and you can find yourself Googling things until 3 A.M.!