Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 6, “Practical Designs” (p. 80)
“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.”
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“Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.”
"One God One Religion - Brother Hamza Andreas Tzortzis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q-vmmLFat8, Youtube (April 16, 2018)
Source: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Taraneh Javanbakht
(1974) Iranian scientist, faculty, poet, translator, playwright and writer
the necessary and sufficient conditions for rational knowledge
Source: Great Islamic Encyclopedia website, 2016 https://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/154958
W. Edwards Deming
(1900–1993) American professor, author, and consultant
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
According to Barbara Wolff, of The Hebrew University's Albert Einstein Archives, this is not one of Einstein's identifiable quotations. (Source: paralegalpie.com http://www.paralegalpie.com/paralegalpie/2009/11/did-anybody-really-say-that.html.)
The phrase "the only source of knowledge is experience" is found in an English-language essay from 1896: "We can only be guided by what we know, and our only source of knowledge is experience" (Arthur J. Pillsbury, "The Final Word" https://books.google.com/books?id=Mw9IAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA595&dq=%22only+source", Overland Monthly, November 1896). The thought can be seen as a paraphrase of John Locke's argument from his Essay Concerning Human Understanding: "Whence has it [the Mind] all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one Word, From Experience". (Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding/Book II/Chapter I, 2.)
The phrase "information is not knowledge" is also found from the nineteenth century https://books.google.com/books?id=W2oAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=%22information+is+not+knowledge%22.
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“Information is not knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“We have now swapped information for knowledge, which is not the same thing. I do not want to know.”
Brunello Cucinelli
(1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist
“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”
John Naisbitt
(1929) American business writer
Source: Megatrends
Russell L. Ackoff
(1919–2009) Scientist
As cited in: Jeff A. Riley and Kemal A. Delic (2010) "Enterprise Knowledge Clouds". In: Handbook of Cloud Computing. Borko Furht, Armando Escalante ed. Springer 2010.
Towards a Systems Theory of Organization, 1985, From Data to Wisdom, 1989