We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.


Warren G. Bennis (1990) Why leaders can't lead: the unconscious conspiracy continues. p. 143

Warren Bennis Quotes

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we...

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we...

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we...

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we...