Source Evaluation Quotes

Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Where older generations are out there struggling to fact-check information and cite sources, Gen Zers don't even bother. They just read the headlines and then speed-scroll to the comments, to see what everyone else says. They're outsourcing the determination of truth and importance to like-minded, trusted influencers.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

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.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

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. )

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

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

You can't believe everything you read.

I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was absolutely brutal and I was terrified - was so important, especially later in life when one was faced with conflicting stories and conflicting evidence.

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

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

[CNN host] doesn't know what's going on in the editing room. She knows what he's told happened, and she's reading it off the teleprompter, and she just accepts it. I'm not saying that they're IQ dumb or any of that. I'm saying they're not curious.

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.

The ‘facts' of history do not exist for any historian until he creates them, and into every fact that he creates some part of his individual experience must enter. But experience not only furnishes the elements for the image which the sources guide us in forming: it is also the final court of appeal in evaluating the sources themselves.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

When you're getting your facts from people, consider the way that they are being given to you.