top of page

"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Information quotes

"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

"Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota."

"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."

"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."

"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."

"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."
Explore more quotes by Walter Cronkite


"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."


"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."


"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."


"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."


"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."


"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."
bottom of page