Chapters Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real…

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. (Thomas Jefferson)”

— Ron Chernow

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the…

— Garrison Keillor

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up…

— Melvin Maddocks

“News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

— Thomas Jefferson

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

— Honore de Balzac

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending…

— Leonard Mlodinow

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.”

— Virginia Woolf