You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I’d heard you were dead.†"I heard you wear a red lace corset,†I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.