Richard Saul Wurman Quotes
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England
Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.
People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.
Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.
When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.
What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?
People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."
The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.