evaluating information Quotes

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.