Information Quotes

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

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.

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

Theres a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

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