Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Information

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher

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

Facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Satirist

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

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

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin (b.1929) American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer

Information is a negotiator’s greatest weapon.
Victor Kiam (1926–2001) American Entrepreneur

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

Soft data, hard conflicts.
Gerhard Kocher (b.1939) Swiss Publicist, Aphorist

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American Writer

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

Facts are stubborn things.
Alain-Rene Lesage (1668–1747) French Novelist, Dramatist

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American Business Academic, Author

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea.
Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American Philosopher, Educator

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

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.
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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

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet

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 key to security is public information.
Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) American Politician

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt American Trend Analyst

We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur

Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

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

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

Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

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

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant (b.1933) British Cartoonist, Author

Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day (1874–1935) American Author, Humorist

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator

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