Information Quotes

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

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

We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

99.9% of the information you get about Africa is wrong

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

95% of millennials say their friends are the most credible source of product information.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.

Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

War is ninety percent information.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

The mere imparting of information is not education.

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.