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Richard Saul Wurman Quotes: You only understand information relative to what you already understand.
         

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.


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The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something



The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.



Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.



Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.



Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.



The organization of information actually creates new information.

The organization of information actually creates new information.



A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England



Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.



People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring



I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.

I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.





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