Stephanie Mills Quotes

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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?

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.

We are drowning in information.

The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.

One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.