Information Deficit Quotes

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.

There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.