People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. —A. J. Liebling More about this quote Tags: news knowledge information Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. —David Brinkley More about this quote Tags: news television information Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: learning curiosity information serendipity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: knowledge information common sense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures — our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity. —Thomas Moore More about this quote Tags: emotions intelligence children information care adults Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: knowledge research information Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: information usefulness useless Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do. —Atul Gawande More about this quote Tags: knowledge science habit information medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email