There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
—C. William Pollard (b.1938) American Businessman
Chock them so … 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.
—Ray Bradbury (b.1920) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
—Gunter Grass (1927–2015) German Novelist, Poet
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
—Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State
Whatever bad awaits, don’t let it spoil the present moment.
—Marty Nemko (b.1950) American Career Coach
Among all the world’s races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.
—John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) Canadian-Born American Economist
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English Polymath, Philosopher, Political/Social Theorist
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
—Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American Business Academic, Author
The key to security is public information.
—Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) American Politician
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.
—Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator
Information is the currency of democracy.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
As a rule…he who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Information is a negotiator’s greatest weapon.
—Victor Kiam (1926–2001) American Business Executive, Entrepreneur
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
—Ashleigh Brilliant (b.1933) British Cartoonist, Author
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American Writer
Facts are stubborn things.
—Alain-Rene Lesage (1668–1747) French Novelist, Dramatist
In a crisis of choice when you are perplexed and do not know which way to go, it might be good to consult several persons.
—Thomas Keating (1923–2018) American Trappist Monk
Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
—Clarence Day (1874–1935) American Author, Humorist
We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource Information that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.
—John Naisbitt American Trend Analyst
The stone age was marked by man’s clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man’s crude use of clever tools.
—Unknown
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Soft data, hard conflicts.
—Gerhard Kocher (b.1939) Swiss Publicist, Aphorist
Information is, above all, a principle of economy. The fewer data needed, the better the information. An overload of information leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
Facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Satirist, Short Story Writer
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
—John Naisbitt American Trend Analyst
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea.
—Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American Philosopher, Educator
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
—Margaret Mead (1901–78) American Anthropologist, Social Psychologist
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