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  • If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

    Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Some people still think knowledge is power.

    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.35, Random House
  • It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

  • I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

    Ideas   Knowing   People  
  • Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

    Goodbye   Song   Fall  
  • Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

    Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.10, Cambridge University Press
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
  • The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.

    Wise   Men   Hands  
  • It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.370, Princeton University Press
  • Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

  • Knowledge is power as well as fame.

    Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.410
  • Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

    Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company
  • Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

    Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.90, Hackett Publishing
  • The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

    Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.7
  • Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 11, 2017
  • Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

  • If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

  • The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

  • To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

    "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.
  • It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.

  • Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

    Life   Music   Beautiful  
  • Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

  • The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

    "This Much I Know: David Bailey". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.
  • There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

  • The more you know the less you need to say.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017
  • It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

    George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot
  • Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy of the past has been to drive; but the era of force must give way to the era of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and lead, to the advantage of all concerned.

    Team   Future   Knowledge  
    "Work, Wages, and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living". P. 116. Book by Henry Gantt, 1910.
  • Knowledge is power.

    Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw (1733). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and made English from the Originals, with occasional notes, To explain what is obscure; and show how far the several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of all the Parts of Knowledge, have been executed to the Present Time”, p.99
  • Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

  • The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.

    Art   Writing   Men  
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