26 Quotes by Richard Saul Wurman

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

In school, we’re rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn’t tell us what we want or need to know.

I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

The organization of information actually creates new information.

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.