Quotes About Information

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

A police interview is non-accusatory. It is an act of gathering information. An interrogation is accusatory. It is an act of persuasion. "An interrogation is conducted only when the investigator is reasonably certain of the suspect's guilt," according to Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

We are assaulted by so much information each day that it's easy to lose touch with the voice inside us, the compelling sense of knowledge, the awareness we have in our gut. In addition, we're often conditioned to dismiss our instincts as primal and animalistic, subjective and unscientific. We're taught to rely on facts and figures, data and digits, not hunches and gut feelings.

The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.

My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves.

When we are not in touch with the ultimate Source that can give us a picture of our true worth, we will slip and slide into the sea of false knowledge that inundates our information age. What

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