Alvin Toffler Quotes

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

We need to be able to make decisions even though part of the information that we have is incorrect and wrong.

We’ve learned our lesson. We are not going to take any more intelligence at face value.

Intelligence involves analysis of raw reports, not merely their enumeration or weighing them by the pound. Analysis, in turn, involves finding independent means of corroborating the reports.

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

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

In politics, information is superabundant—what is needed is judgement and selectivity in dealing with that information.

In many important contexts, especially those that are complex, new, or unfamiliar, you shouldn’t blink… and you really shouldn’t trust your gut.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

As an intelligence analyst you have to tell the president what you know, what you think you know and what you don’t know.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.

Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.

I don't believe everything I read.

There's got to be a point in time where the reality comes home and people realize, here are the facts, and this is either not true or it is true. You've got the facts, you can make your own decision now.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.