Knowledge Deficit Quotes

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

I'm not that politically educated.

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

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

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

The fractious, know-nothing thirty-year-old is what we got when we let the twelve-year-old drop his books and take up the screen.

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.