Information Evaluation Quotes

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.

Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

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. )

Like the saying goes, don't believe everything you read.

There are three sides to every coin (Heads, Tails, and The Edge). Your ability to understand contrasting points of view and your ability to glean what information you believe to be valuable from each side is a crucial skill.

Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read.

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?

You can't believe everything you read.

Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

You have to really be careful with what you see and read because you can't believe it all.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.