Information Quotes

• As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Success, Education, Intelligent

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

  Albert Einstein

  Stores, Ability, Knows

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• Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

  John Updike

  Juvenile

  John Updike's speech at the Book Expo America's "Saturday Book & Author Breakfast", May 26, 2006.

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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

  Ronald Reagan

  Oxygen, Age, Borders

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• 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

  People, Decision, Benefits

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• 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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• Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, People, Together

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.24, Hachette UK

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  Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Technology

  1959 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings in World Politics (1959).

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

  Kofi Annan

  Knowledge Is Power, Liberating

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

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• The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Knowledge, Knowing

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 30, 2014

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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, Information Knowledge, Government

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

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• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Business

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• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

  Clarence Day

  Inspiring, Beauty, Knowledge

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• The organization of information actually creates new information.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Organization, New Information

  Keynote from Day 2 of the 2010 IA Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, boxesandarrows.com. 2010.

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• We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

  Chris Hardwick

  Age, Management, Information Age

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• In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Order, Firsts, Bits

  "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.

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• Data is not useful until it becomes information.

  Seth Godin

  Data

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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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• As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Congratulations

  "Set course: Information management" by Miles Brignall, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

  Aldous Huxley

  Life Is Short, Life Is, Endless

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.21, Random House

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• War is 90% information.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Data

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• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivational, Running, Knowledge

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.399, Vintage

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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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• Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

  Thomas W. Moore

  Learning, Science, Data

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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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