T. S. Eliot Quotes

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

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

We are drowning in information.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

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

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.

[…] 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.

The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.

I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.

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.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

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.

When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought us, I think people are going to say 'how did people know anything in those years, during that particular time in history?' Because there is so much disorganization in the information.

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

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.