Thomas R. Frieden Quotes

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

What I care about is maximum information.

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

Without knowledge we cannot act; with it we can and will.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

I'm not saying that people should believe in a specific thing or a specific way, but if everyone has the knowledge they need to have, then they can make their own decisions. That's the key thing: to have the information.

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

Data can set you free.