"Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding."

--

Source : Harold Evans (2009). “My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: An Autobiography”, p.182, Hachette UK

Harold Evans

#Creating Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Information Quotes

“The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)”

Source : Kenneth C. Davis (1990). “Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned”, Crown Pub
“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.”
“If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.”
“Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.”
“When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.”
“There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.”
“There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.”

You may also like:

Ben Bradlee
Editor
Bennett Cerf
Publisher
Gary Kildall
Computer Scientist
Katharine Graham
Publisher
Ping Fu
Entrepreneur
Rupert Murdoch
Business person
Sean Wilentz
Professor
Tina Brown
Journalist
William Rees-Mogg
Journalist