The 05/30/13 Joy Jar

29 May

 

Moi is grateful that she lives in a country which allows her to gather information on a variety of topics. Information is not wisdom, nor is it knowledge. Information is simply the first step. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the freedom to read and listen to a variety of sources.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

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