James Gleick Quotes

What I care about is maximum information.

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

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

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Information is not knowledge.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

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

In all your getting, get understanding.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

The best vision is insight.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.