James Thurber Quotes

The cure to information overload is more information.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

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

We are drowning in information.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

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.

If journalism is sometimes inaccurate and often inadequate, ignorance would not be preferable.

There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Information doesn't kill you.

Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

If you submit a search of the following phrase on Google, you get over four hundred returns, and they are often very strange ones: "I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

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

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.