Quotes About Misinformation

I really don't know what you're talking about," said the Speaker of the United State House of Representatives. "We're doing great. Turn on any news channel, they'll tell you. Taxes are low, business is booming, crime is down, the Patriots win the Super Bowl every year, and we're finally getting our country back. I'll admit, it used to be a real nightmare around here.

The world suffers a lot because of false truths.

"They say" is often a great liar.

One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

With social media, there are no facts behind it. People hear something, and they just run with it. And things get spread, good or bad.

In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.

Fake News has become a matter of concern in the country.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

Fox News is garbage.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

If American opinion has been uninformed, misinformed and prejudiced, the missionaries are largely to blame. Interpreting history in terms of the advance of Christianity, they have given an inadequate, distorted, and occasionally a grotesque picture of Moslems and Islam.

The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class it just means you're rich and insecure or poor and misinformed.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

The problem with Internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.