Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 16 “ Nothing is swifter than rumor.” ―    Titus Livius  ( Livy ) Inspired by  A. Paul Weber's  Das Gerücht  -  interpreted in Keith Haring style: Related: “ A  lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on. ”

Quote of the Week 9 “ Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” ― Michael Jackson   Related: Quote of the Week 50 / 2020 " Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. " ―  Jonathan Swift Full quote :

Quote of the Week 7 “ Don’t believe everything you think. ” ―  Sidney K. Bennett Triggered by a recent QuoteInvestigator review. Variants: “ Don’t believe everything you think, especially today. ” “ Don’t believe anything you think and only half what you know. ” Related : “ Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” ―  Edgar Allan Poe (Short story “ The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether ”)

Quote of the Week 49 “ There are three sides to the question — my side, your side, and the right side.” ―  Wray Hunt Triggered by yesterday's Quote Investigator post. Related:

Quote of the Week 34 " The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false. " ― Harry G. Frankfurt (" On Bullshit ")  Triggered by the ongoing discussion of trustworthiness of Large Language Models' (LLMs) output. Under this definition LLMs are bullshitters, not liars. But liars can use them to amplify their lies. Full quote : "The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but rather only cares whether or not their listener is persuaded." Related : „It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.“ „Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.“

Quote of the Week 5 " Objective truths are established by evidence. Personal truths by faith. Political truths by incessant repetition." ―  Neil deGrasse Tyson Cited in the June 2022 " Fantastic Facts and How to Use Them " presentation by Nithin Bopanna. Triggered by the reference to a different part of the presentation  focused on the (ab)use of DORA metrics . [ LinkedIn ]

Quote of the Week 37 "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." ―  André Gide  (sometimes attributed to Voltaire)  Triggered by the u se of a variation of the quote in a reply to a S.B. Kaufman tweet: "Admire those who seek the truth, but fear those who claim to have found it." -- Every Wise Person Ever — Christopher Ryan (@ThatChrisRyan) July 13, 2022

Quote of the Week 16 " There is no truth, only belief." ― Unknown I have seen this quote attributed to René Descartes and David Hume but could not find a definitive source. See also " The Belief in Truth " and Oleg Filin's " The Portrait of M. Monroe " for expressing the same thought.

Quote of the Week 13 " The truth is rarely pure and never simple." ― Oscar Wilde Triggered by the use of the  quote  from "The Importance of Being Earnest" in a recent tweet  by  Kara Swisher.

Quote of the Week 37 " Man can embody truth but he cannot know it." ―  William Butler Yeats   Triggered by the use of the quote in the documentary " Being in the World - On the Subject of the  #Heideggerian  Dasein " which is referenced in the recent research paper " A brief history of AI: how to prevent another winter (a critical review) ".

Quote of the Week 50 " Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. " ―  Jonathan Swift Background information:  Quote Investigator .