You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, ‚Wow, these networks have a lot of information.‘

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges… If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I’d care to know about you.