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Quotes About Informed

The well-informed Parthians turned up out of the blue with a force of fifty thousand mounted archers
~ Anthony Everitt
If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country is dependent on public schools, whether or not you personally have a kid in the public school system.
~ Charles Best
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
~ Ralph Fiennes
One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances.
~ Frank Herbert
Una de las cosas mas peligrosas en el universo es un pueblo ignorante con motivos reales de resentimiento. Pero no hay nada tan peligroso como una sociedad informada e inteligente que mantenga esos resentimientos.
~ Frank Herbert
One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances. The damage that vengeful intelligence can wreak, you cannot even imagine.
~ Frank Herbert
The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.
~ Adora Svitak
The first thing I do in the morning is have an espresso - straight up - and read the papers. I like 'The Independent,' 'The Times,' and the 'Financial Times.'
~ Jonathan Anderson
And they're doing this without the knowledge or informed permission of the people whose lives they have colonized—and who are at present without means to escape the surveillance capitalists' web.
~ Rod Dreher
You are far too well informed a man to pretend that you don't know what little game you are playing. If you have presentiments of death, it is because of certain wishes. You desire to escape sexual impotence - impotence, in short - and you wish for death to save you from all that. It is one of the virility's favorite ploys.
~ Romain Gary
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)
~ Ron Chernow
Don't underestimate questions from the crowd technology has made voters more informed than ever.
~ Ron Fournier
a professor of sociology asserted that "the most dangerous weakness in a democracy is the uninformed and unthinking average man.
~ Lucy Moore
Informed consent is probably the most revolutionary, the most rudimentary, the most misunderstood and misused term in all of health law and bioethics.
~ John D. Lantos
Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an "authority"—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.
~ Anthony Weston
No soy pesimista. Soy un optimista bien informado.
~ Antonio Gala
An informed buyer purchases the product for its good quality, and not merely for its brand endorsed by a celebrity or even when lots of people are buying it for the big discount on its bulk quantity.
~ Anuj Somany
What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
~ Harrison Ford
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people. I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
~ Giles Coren
When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that.
~ Eric Topol
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
~ Robert McChesney
I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.
~ Joy Behar
I've come to the conclusion that you shouldn't have to see a genetic counselor. It should be a choice.
~ Anne Wojcicki