Definition of Information

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Information

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.

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Information Quotations

Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Tony Robbins

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

Information Translations

information in Afrikaans is inligting, kennisgewing, informasie, berig
information in Danish is beretning
information in Dutch is informatie
information in French is rancard
information in German is Benachrichtigung {f}, Information, Auskunft {f}
information in Italian is informazione, ragguaglio
information in Latin is indicium
information in Norwegian is opplysning

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