Otto Rank Quotes

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.

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

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

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."

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Too much information about nothing.

What we have is a data glut.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.