Misinformation Quotes

In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

Everything on the internet is real god damn it!

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox Of Our Time." I didn't write "George Carlin On Aging." I didn't write a eulogy for my wife after she died. I didn't write the New Orleans thing. I didn't write "I Am A Bad American." None of them. You know what I've decided to do? I'm going to get a little cheap put-it-together-yourself website called NotMe.com.