“The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.” WayGivingProblemBigsGovernmentAmericaKnowingInformationBalanceSafeProgramWeightTerroristPrivacyTransparencySurveillanceBig Problems Author:Al Franken
“When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience has to be made, and consideration of how the information would best be applied.” IfsHas BeensMadeFeelingsWisdomValuesKnowingInformationUnderstoodConceptsConnectionsConsiderationPersonal Feelings Author:Peter Shepherd
“The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.” LittlesHandsKnowledgeKnowingInformationBurdenGreat MenLeisureScholarship Book:In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.” WantWritingMadeBookCharacterCertainOrderEmotionNovelKnowingInformationReaderAmountPaidStructureGuidesMaintainingPaymentFidelityPaid Off Author:David Bezmozgis
“Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.” PeopleKnowsWayLongIdeasAsksBeliefCausesChallengesJusticeKnowingInformationMovementDependsOrdinaryAbuseActivismChecksLoudEducateSocial ChangeOrdinary PeopleKnowing The Truth Author:Unita Blackwell
“We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?” BookStatesCultureSpaceNovelKnowingAchieveInformationMovementReaderComputerConsciousMoodUnconsciousScrapContemplativeStimulation Author:T.C. Boyle
“We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.” PeopleNeedsMayChildrenBigsKnowingOur LivesFailingEventsInformationOur ChildrenRaisesStriveCurrentsMatureGapsParenthoodImperfectDepressingSparesInevitabilityCurrent EventsKnowing And Doing Author:Judith Viorst
“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.” PeopleKnowsChildrenDoePastYoungUnderstandingEducationKnowingGreaterInformationVarietyGapsExposedSophisticatedExperience And LearningKnowing And Understanding Author:David Elkind
“[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.” KnowsNeedsUseDecisionEducationTeachKnowingLearningTeachingInformationEducationalGreat EducationCollege EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeaching LearningInspirational EducationBeing A TeacherInspirational EducationalKnowledge And LearningKnowledge LearningWhat Is Education Author:William Feather
“It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.” KnowsNeedsMindImportantRememberFacesValuesAnswersPerfectActingKnowingDoubtInformationPossibilityBalanceJudgmentReflectionAdversityCuriosityInvestingConvictionPursuitEndlessImperfectOngoingRelentlessRefinementPrecariousSteadfastnessFacing AdversityRelentless Pursuit Author:Seth Klarman
“One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.” PastDifferencesKnowingInformationKeysKey To SuccessKnowledge And Wisdom Author:Bill Crawford
“It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” KnowsLittlesMatterStoriesKnowingInformationFitEasierPatternsConsistencyGood StoryCompleteness Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow