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 | In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 12 likes |
 | As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 6 likes |
 | Getting information from the Internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 4 likes |
 | The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 4 likes |
 | A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 4 likes |
 | The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 4 likes |
 | How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 4 likes |
 | It s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Information is not knowledge. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 3 likes |
 | The secret in business is knowing something nobody else knows. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 3 likes |
 | If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 3 likes |
| Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
 | All the information I have about myself is from forged documents. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 2 likes |
 | To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense |
 | Something that everyone knows isn’t worth anything. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
| There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
| Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake. |
 | How it is we have so much information, but know so little? — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | This is a sure sign of barbarism: in any society, it is always the elements of inferior intelligence who are hungry to be up to date. Incapable of discerning by taste, culture and critical thinking, they automatically judge, according to this principle, that truth is novelty. |
 | Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Each time we collect information, things get a little more complicated. |
 | Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor. |
Personal Stories
 | I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 4 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 13 likes |
 | If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1884-1980, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt 5 likes |
 | At the confessional, when a priest insists, we have reason to wonder if it is for the truth or for pleasure. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
Ancient Greek
 | Gods know all things. Θεοὶ δε τε πάντα ίσασιν. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey IV 9 likes |
 | Act knowing. Γνους πράττε. — Pittacus of Mytilene, 650-570 BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 4 likes |
 | Don’t be eager to know everything lest you become ignorant of everything. Μη πάντα επίστασθαι προθύμεο, μη πάντων αμαθής γένη. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. Στέργει γαρ ουδείς άγγελον κακών επών. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet ‐ Antigone 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | No news is good news. 5 likes |
