Errors Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those…

— Thomas Jefferson

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is…

— Karl Kraus

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

— Orson Scott Card

“If you do not read the newspaper, the lack of knowledge will show. If you do read it, misconception of reality will prevail.”

— Stephen Clayworth

“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in…

— Andrew Ferguson

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong

— Thomas Jefferson

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it…

— Hans Eysenck