Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

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

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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.

That’s a very good question but I’m afraid that I don’t have a very good answer.

My critics were entirely right in writing that certain fundamental ideas in my article would, if pursued to their conclusion, result in the dissolution of the left-wing cultural movement.

There is a tendency to mistake data for wisdom…

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.

The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.

It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?

I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.

Education is paramount in light of so many things that are out there.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.