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Information

As a rule...he who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.--Benjamin Disraeli
Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.--E. D. Hirsch, Jr. (Cultural Literacy)
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 (Fahrenheit 451)
Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.--Anna C. Brackett (The Technique of Rest)
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.--Gertrude Stein (Gertrude Stein by Sprigge)
Facts are stubborn things.--Alain Rene Lesage
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.--G. K. Chesterton
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.--Aldous Huxley
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.--Fred Hoyle (in Astronomy Transformed by Edge and Mulkay)
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.--Franklin P. Adams
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.--Reuben Blades
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
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.--Peter Cochrane
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.--William Pollard (The Soul of the Firm)
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 F. Drucker (Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices)
1. The information we have is not what we want.
2. The information we want is not what we need.
3. The information we need is not available.--Finagle's New Laws of Information (in 1,001 Logical Laws by Peers)
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, Jr.
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.--Kenneth Chang
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master fact--not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.--Robert Heller
On the internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.--J. Michael Straczynski (on the 'Net 11/20/99)
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.--Mortimer J. Adler
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.--Edward Abbey ("Down the River with Henry Thoreau" Words from the Land)
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.--Warren Bennis
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.--Maya Angelou (I Dream a World by Lanker)
To live effectively is to live with adequate information.--Norbert Wiener (The Human Use of Human Beings)
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.--John Naisbitt (Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives)
We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.--Rutherford D. Rogers
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?--T.S. Eliot ("The Rock")