There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
—Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American Business Academic, Author
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
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience there and then gone.
—Bill Moyers (1934–2025) American Journalist, Public Figure, TV Commentator
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American Writer
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
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
—Ashleigh Brilliant (1933–2025) American Epigrammatist, Author, Cartoonist
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
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
—John Naisbitt American Trend Analyst
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’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
—Clarence Day (1874–1935) American Author, Humorist
Information is the currency of democracy.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
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
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
—Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
—Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator
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
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 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
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
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
Facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Satirist, Short Story Writer
Facts are stubborn things.
—Alain-Rene Lesage (1668–1747) French Novelist, Dramatist
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
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
The key to security is public information.
—Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) American Politician
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 a negotiator’s greatest weapon.
—Victor Kiam (1926–2001) American Business Executive, Entrepreneur
Whatever bad awaits, don’t let it spoil the present moment.
—Marty Nemko (b.1950) American Career Coach
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
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
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
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