Top 1200 Information Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.

[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

There's a lot of health information available on your smart phone. There's financial information. There's your conversations, there's business secrets. There's an enormous long list of things that there's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home, right. Which makes it a lot more valuable to all the bad guys out there.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

The things that get under my skin are when the premise of a question is based on inaccurate information, misleading information. That can be frustrating.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.

When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.

So the problem in the West is that, especially in places like the USA, a person will obtain this much knowledge and immediately think that they have a large amount of knowledge. And then start to act on the basis of what they think, they posses. Instead of having this much knowledge and realizing that in fact this is only this much knowledge and the amount of where you can go there is where you came is much bigger than where you've already gotten.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life. I just think that technology and information, it's overwhelming at the moment, but it's really going to make life better.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.

The organization of information actually creates new information.

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in.

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

Even if you're going into a field that has nothing to do with computer science, just having that way of analytical thinking and being able to process information and break it down is important no matter what you're doing. Having that knowledge of code is something that you can apply to your daily life.

Sometimes you can have too much information. You keep gathering information and never bother to find out what the real answer is.