Saul Wurman Quotes

#1. When you can admit that you don't know, you are more likely to ask the questions that will enable you to learn. - Richard Saul Wurman, from Information Anxiety 2

Alberto Cairo

#2. Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and ... you deserve it.

Chris Pine

#3. Young hearts have their unfathomable depths.

Knut Hamsun

#4. Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

Richard Saul Wurman

#5. Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

Richard Saul Wurman

#6. The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Richard Saul Wurman

#7. In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

Richard Saul Wurman

#8. 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.

Richard Saul Wurman

#9. The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

Richard Saul Wurman

#10. Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Richard Saul Wurman

#11. I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

Richard Saul Wurman

#12. The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

Richard Saul Wurman

#13. I was a smoker for about 20 years.

Selma Blair

#14. People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

Richard Saul Wurman

#15. You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

Richard Saul Wurman

#16. 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.

Richard Saul Wurman

#17. We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

Richard Saul Wurman

#18. If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand.' It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

Richard Saul Wurman

#19. The organization of information actually creates new information.

Richard Saul Wurman

#20. I am terribly fascinated with things that I don't understand.

Richard Saul Wurman

#21. Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Richard Saul Wurman

#22. Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

Richard Saul Wurman

#23. People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

Richard Saul Wurman

#24. Our librarian, Ms. Corbeil, is one of a kind. She welcomes all Social Outcasts and talks to us like we're adults and worthy of her attention, something many of us don't get very often.

Maya Van Wagenen

#25. It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.

Edith Wharton

#26. Love can make the difference between life and death.I've seen how powerful love can be.

Paul Pilkington

#27. One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

Richard Saul Wurman

#28. The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like not to understand.

Richard Saul Wurman

#29. Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes.

Kevin R. Stone

#30. Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to, and make our culture okay to talk about.

George Lopez

#31. What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

Richard Saul Wurman

#32. The Mall Of America, outside Minneapolis, is just a mall. Yeah, it's big. So, like, instead of your typical 12 Starbucks, there are 30.

Adam Schlesinger

#33. In recognition that any good idea is a fragile thing, you have to give it a few minutes to breath - like a good red wine.

Richard Saul Wurman

#34. My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

Michael Clarke Duncan

#35. A Latino actor can't play this and a Latino actor can't play that because they're Latino.

Roberto Aguire

#36. 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

Richard Saul Wurman