Information Quotes

"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were" "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" "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence." "How it is we have so much information, but know so little?" "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed" "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" "A scholar is just a library's way of making another library." "Knowledge is power" "I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information." "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge" "Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject so you know you are getting the best possible information" "The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know" "For the sake of knowledge and a better-informed public, it is necessary to celebrate a cult of the book, even and especially in these times of the book's accelerated commodification." "Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another."