Clifford Stoll Quotes

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Nobody is born wise.

Knowledge itself is power.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

I'm not very wise to many things.