Jimmy Wales Quotes

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.

When you are responsible for telling the truth, you must take the time to find out what the truth is…. To find out the truth takes weeks. It takes only 5 minutes for a wrong message to travel around the entire globe.

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

Regardless of what is on the Internet, I'm actually only 29 years old - and holding.

I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!

If you didn't talk to me to write something, you're just making stuff up. You're going by what you think, what you're assuming. I leave it at that. Read it. Believe what you want. But at the end of the day, if you've got a real question, then just come up and ask me, and see who I am as a person.

I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.

Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised