1,011 Quotes About Information

There is a difference between information and knowledge, and the most important role of the library is not providing access to information; it is supporting, enhancing, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge - in other words, education.

the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot be bought and sold in a library.” As a tradition barely a century and a half old in the United States, it gives physical form to the principle that public access to knowledge is the foundation of democracy ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do," The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

To succeed in this day and age, all you need to be ahead of the pack is to be informed, and turn the information into transformation for your betterment and that of others.

Information wants to be free.

Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.

Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.

Во всех войнах, известных истории, народ, полагая свою войну праведной, горел желанием уничтожить врага. Теперь же безграничная информация не только расшатывает идеологию граждан, но и делает их уязвимыми пред видом страдания противника: смерть врага перестает быть далеким и неясным событием, а превращается в конкретное и совершенно непереносимое зрелище.

Information like money is only useful or has value when it is fully utilized.