Information Knowledge Quotes

• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Information Is Power

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• The only source of knowledge is experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

  Tom Clancy

  Knowledge And Power, People, Knowledge Is Power

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Knowledge, Organized Life, Too Much Information

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Reading, Book, Knowledge

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• Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

  Ian Lowe

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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• The basic economic resource - the means of production -
  is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
  It is and will be knowledge.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge, Mean, Learning

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• Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

  Robin Morgan

  Peace, Knowledge, Humility

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.121, Open Road Media

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 18 Apr. 1775)

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• 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

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

  Tom Clancy

  Knowledge And Power, Government, People

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

  Peter Senge

  Information Sharing, Creating, People

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• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Fun, Knowledge, Science

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission" by Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

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• Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

  Clifford Stoll

  Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge

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• Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Wise, Expectations

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Technology, Fog

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission". Interview with Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

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• A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Education, Mean, Technology

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• Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Knowledge, Mean, Discovery

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• Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

  Henning Mankell

  Mistake, People, Confusing

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 03, 2012

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• What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

  Jimmy Wales

  Hands, People, Understanding

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• Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

  Mark Levin

  Mean, Past, Discipline

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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