John Maeda Quotes

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

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

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

What I care about is maximum information.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.