Information Quotes

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

  Albert Einstein

  Stores, Ability, Knows

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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

  Ronald Reagan

  Oxygen, Age, Borders

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Data is not useful until it becomes information.

  Seth Godin

  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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• Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

  Victor Kiam

  Weapons, Negotiation

  Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for It: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur”, Signet

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

  Sydney J. Harris

  Communication, Two, Giving

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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Humor, Oxygen

  The Guardian, June 14, 1989.

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• When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Destiny, People, Ignorant

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.402, Best Books on

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• Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

  Sivananda

  Brain, Mind, Use

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• The information we need is not available. The information we want is not what we need. The information we have is not what we want.

  John Peers

  Needs, Peers, Want

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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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