Information Quotes

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

~ Bill Watterson

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

~ Ray Bradbury

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

~ Mehek Bassi

My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others...

~ Hewitt E. Moore

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.

~ Criss Jami

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position.Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

~ Brandon Sanderson

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

~ Oscar Wilde

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

~ Criss Jami

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

~ T.s. Eliot

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year.

~ David Brooks

The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

~ Antonya Nelson

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

~ Alan Bennett

People say mountains change in about ten years. If something as stubborn and mammoth as a mountain can change in a decade, the hearts of ordinary North Koreans can change. I'm sure of it. I'm living proof. --Ha Young, a North Korean defector interviewed in Jieun Baek's book North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society

~ Jieun Baek

People say mountains change in about ten years. If something as stubborn and mammoth as a mountain can change in a decade, the hearts of ordinary North Koreans can change. I'm sure of it. I'm living proof. --Ha Young, a North Korean defector

~ Jieun Baek

Information is not knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

~ Timothy Leary

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

~ Idries Shah

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

~ Samuel Johnson

Isn’t that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something… Incomplete information… Endless possibilities… When you don’t know much about something, it’s the most exciting sensation.-Kutsnetz in TALUS

~ Erol Ozan

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

~ Don Delillo

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

~ Nick Drake

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out.

~ Alan Bennett

Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.

~ Marty Rubin

We awaken by asking the right questions.

~ Suzy Kassem

Eradicating ignorance through the establishment of information centers.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The ‘information’ one receives from within, shows credit [punya] and debit [paap] karmas. All the Knowledge-Vision is present within. Everything can be Known from within but only as long as you do not create obstructions. If you were to cross-over [violate] it, then the ‘information’ will stop coming through.

~ Dada Bhagwan

the problem of a worker in today’s knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its excess. … In order to learn anything, we need time. And to make time we must use information filters allowing us to ignore most of the information aimed at us. We must ignore much to learn a little.

~ Philosopher Mario Bunge

We have to continually grow in the knowledge of Christ, in order to avoid every limitation of our human understanding, and allow the Lordship of God’s information, which is hidden in His wisdom

~ Sunday Adelaja

If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information from distant places and then the world would be a more peaceful place. He had been perfectly serious. That illusion had lasted from age forty-nine to age sixty-five.

~ Paulette Jiles

…and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge

~ Louise Penny

The knowledge or information from different source can be misunderstood, unless you experience life, within. All the wisdom and bliss comes from within, and you can have, all the answers of life, when you look inside.

~ Roshan Sharma

Who controls the words controls your thoughts.

~ Heather Marsh

You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence.

~ Steven Magee

There is a difference between information and knowledge, and the most important role of the library is not providing access to information; it is supporting, enhancing, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge - in other words, education.

~ Kathleen Mccook