Selective Exposure Quotes

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?

Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn."

The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.

When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

People of a certain political view tend to read material of only that point of view … except to cast contempt on the other points of view.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don't want to hear the other side.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

Your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online. What's in your filter bubble depends on who you are, and it depends on what you do. But you don't decide what gets in - and more importantly, you don't see what gets edited out.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

I pick and choose when I want to be in spotlight, which is only connected to my work and when I need to use the media.

You don't want everyone to see a piece of content. You want the people who are really excited about the content to see it.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.