When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm...

Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.

It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in...

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.”[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]

The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

RUMOUR:”Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.

Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.

Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things...

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.

Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the...

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

After all, he was human, in spite of rumors to the contrary.

Non-professionals can also misrepresent the personal characteristics, religious beliefs, and appearance, of these therapists, can name-call and otherwise mock them, and can attribute false agendas to them, such as assigning religious motives to secular therapists...

The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that there would seem to be nothing left...