Hans Rosling Quotes

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

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

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

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

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

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

Data is not intelligence.

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.

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

I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom of how we know anything. Let me give a couple examples to get that point across.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.