Information Quotes

Imagination is more valuable than information. (Albert Einstein)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't. View quote
Merton Miller
To live effectively is to live with adequate information. View quote
Norbert Wiener
Optimism is lack of information. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. View quote
Margaret Mead
It is a very sad thing nowadays that there is so little useless information. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
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)
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. View quote
Carl Sagan
I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. View quote
Jerry Pournelle
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. View quote
Walt Disney
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. View quote
Frank Zappa
A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information. View quote
Robert Aumann
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. (Merton Miller)
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. View quote
Tom Waits
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. View quote
E. M. Forster
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. View quote
Marshall McLuhan