Norbert Wiener Quotes

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

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

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

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

When you show people good information, they make good decisions.

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

If people are educated, they will know what they need.

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

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.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

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

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

Information is not knowledge.