Informed Decisions Quotes

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“In business, it's important to be able to make informed decisions.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics course, you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. You take a look at the first ad you see on television and ask yourself … is that it’s purpose? No it’s not. It’s to create uninformed consumers making irrational choices. And these same institutions run political campaigns. It’s pretty much the same: you have to undermine democracy by trying to get uninformed people to make irrational choices.”
― Noam Chomsky, The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What's Wrong with Libertarians

“In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge.”
― Zoe Weil, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life

“The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from individual to individual. The process of treatment can therefore be long and complicated. Finding the right balance of drugs, whether lithium salts, anti-psychotics, SSRIs or other kinds of treatment can be a very hit or miss heuristic process requiring great patience and classy, caring doctoring. Some patients would rather reject the chemical path and look for ways of using diet, exercise and talk-therapy. For some the condition is so bad that ECT is indicated. One of my best friends regularly goes to a clinic for doses of electroconvulsive therapy, a treatment looked on by many as a kind of horrific torture that isn’t even understood by those who administer it. This friend of mine is just about one of the most intelligent people I have ever met and she says, “I know. It ought to be wrong. But it works. It makes me feel better. I sometimes forget my own name, but it makes me happier. It’s the only thing that works.” For her. Lord knows, I’m not a doctor, and I don’t understand the brain or the mind anything like enough to presume to judge or know better than any other semi-informed individual, but if it works for her…. well then, it works for her. Which is not to say that it will work for you, for me or for others.”
― Stephen Fry

“Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.”
― Richard Puz, The Carolinian

“If you're anything like me, you don't make up your mind about important issues by doing original research, pounding over primary sources and coming to your own conclusions; you listen to people who claim to know what they're talking about - "experts" - and try to determine which of them is more credible. You do your best to gauge who's authentically well-informed and unbiased, who has an agenda and what it is - who's a corporate flack, a partisan hack, or a wacko. I believe that global warming is real and anthropogenic not because I've personally studied Antarctic ice core samples or run my own computer climate models, but because all the people who support the theory are climatologists with no evident investment in the issue, and all the people who dismiss it as alarmist claptrap are shills of the petro-chemical industry or just seem to like debunking things, from the Holocaust to the moon landing. We put our trust - our votes, our money, sometimes our lives - in someone else's authority. In other words, most of us decide not what to believe but whom to believe. And I say believe because for most people, such decisions are matters of faith rather than reason.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

“The earth is crying for people who make sound judgement and informed decisions.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The science of research equips us with knowledge and insights, enabling us to make informed decisions and evaluate our missional effectiveness.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Missiology: Beyond Boundaries

“The beauty of evidence-based discipleship is that it allows us to measure progress and make informed decisions about how best to invest our time, energy, and resources.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry

“Evidence-based discipleship helps us to avoid the pitfalls of guesswork and intuition and to instead make informed decisions based on what we know works.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry

“Without strategic management, one can quickly lose wealth. It's not just about earning and investing - it's about making informed, well-considered financial decisions.”
― Tammy Trenta, Wisdom to Be Wealthy: Accelerate to the Top 1% and Create Generational Wealth Using the Family Office Blueprint