Jane Brody Quotes

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

One of the first things we should teach every student is not to believe everything they read and hear.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

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.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

Don’t believe everything the professors tell you. Get your own information on your own terms.

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

“Google” is not a synonym for “research.”

I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.

I think it's important for the American people to be thoughtful consumers of information and to think about the sources of it and to think about the support and predication for what they hear.

Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions.

I always recommend navigating the landscape and understanding where it's coming from, so don't get your media from just one source; get it from a variety of different sources but understand the bias and the source.

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

If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".