information quotes

• Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. (Walter Benjamin) [awareness/bad]
• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. (Winston Churchill) [genius/evaluation/awareness]
• As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. (Benjamin Disraeli) [life/awareness]
• Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. (Albert Einstein) [awareness]
• Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. (Thomas Eliot) [wisdom/knowledge/awareness]
• We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. (Martha Graham) [look/life/awareness/wonder]
• A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. (Vaclav Havel) [human/action/awareness/human]
• To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. (Eric Hoffer) [awareness]
• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. (Eric Hoffer) [awareness]
• It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. (Eric Hoffer) [awareness/desires/nation/feeling]
• Information is the currency of democracy. (Thomas Jefferson) [awareness/democracy]
• Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it. (Samuel Johnson) [knowledge/find/awareness]
• America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact. (David Herbert Lawrence) [america/people/awareness/time]
• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. (John Locke) [awareness/men/form]
• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. (Abraham Harold Maslow) [change/change/awareness]
• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. (Margaret Mead) [thing/awareness]
• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. (Ronald Reagan) [awareness/age/walls/borders]
• Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network. (Peter Russell) [awareness/network]
• What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, 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. (Herbert Simon) [awareness/attention/wealth/awareness]
• AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. (Susan Sontag) [awareness]
• Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense. (Gertrude Stein) [awareness/day]
• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. (Barbara Walters) [awareness]
• The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. (Norbert Wiener) [awareness/value/more/war]
• Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. (Oscar Wilde) [awareness/source/fortune]
• Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday. (Amy Weber) [awareness/give/actors/]
• You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change. (Ashley Judd) [power/awareness/change]
• We are both grown-ups and have the utmost respect for each other personally and professionally. If certain journalists want to throw their integrity out the window by spreading false information, then so be it. (Christina Aguilera) [respect/integrity/awareness]
• Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to. (Catherine Bell) [internet/awareness]
• I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research. (Aaron Eckhart) [awareness/look]
• If people are generous with their information, then the actor can use that information lovingly and respectfully. (Ben Kingsley) [people/awareness/awareness]
• I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination. (Breckin Meyer) [think/reading/awareness/find]

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