We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

—Rutherford D. Rogers

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

—Maya Angelou

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea.

—Mortimer J. Adler

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

—Aldous Huxley

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

—J. Michael Straczynski

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

—Reuben Blades

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

—Franklin P. Adams

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

—Gertrude Stein

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.

—Ray Bradbury

(Fahrenheit 451)

Information is, above all, a principle of economy. The fewer data needed, the better the information. An overload of information leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

—Peter F. Drucker

It is essential that along with imparting facts, that we inspire the ability and desire to learn.

—Barbara Viniar