"Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking."

-- Fritz Machlup

#Thinking Quotes #Information Quotes

“In short, Europeâ€™s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeographyâ€”in particular, to the continentsâ€™ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.”
“But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.”
“As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.”
“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”

Source : "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.
“The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves”

Source : Italo Calvino (1985). “Mr. Palomar”, Harcourt
“The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. Such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. It is impalpable, illusory, transient; ''tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone'; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.”

Source : "Man in the Modern Age". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1933.
“For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.”

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