Misinformed Quotes

“There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Chief Factors Limiting Access to Facts:
1)Artificial censorship
2)Limitations of social contact
3)Comparatively meager time in a day for paying attention to public affairs.
4)Distortion arising because events have to be compressed into very short messages
5)Difficulty of making a small vocabulary express a complicated world
6)Fear of facing those facts which would seem to threaten the established routine of men's lives”
― Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion

“The only difference between being uninformed and misinformed is that one is your choice and the other is theirs.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!”
― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Misinformation is the side effect of being uninformed.”
― Mohith Agadi

“I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Forget what you think you know. That’s over. You don’t know what’s going on out there.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“...when you’re on the bottom, your only choice is to blame the top.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“We gather up a few thin blades of meadow grass and call them the meadow, when the meadow itself rolls off to horizons that escape our view.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Because the chainsaw is running doesn’t mean that you didn’t put the chain on backwards.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough