Cumulative Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin Download Open image “While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.” — Daniel J. Boorstin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cumulative Data Information Inspirational Knowledge Miscellaneous Orderly
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.” — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as a kind… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white family. That… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image