Mike Wallace Quotes

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

Even intelligent people succumb to their own propaganda.

The assembly has witnessed how historical truth is established. Once an allegation is repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation. It is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

I wonder if we haven’t committed the most dreadful folly.

We tend to believe our own propaganda a little too completely.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

A democracy becomes ungovernable if a substantial portion of the population lives in an alternative reality…. How do you have a rational conversation about President Obama’s policies of he believes that Obama is a spy for Iran.

Facts just don’t mean anything anymore. It’s who shouts the loudest and repeats it the most.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

Bogus science gives vague, undisciplined thinking the look of seriousness and truth.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.

I have come to the conclusion that Ben Carson is a bit nuts. I say that not because I disagree with him politically, but because he doesn't seem to know what the truth is.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.

I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you.