Knowledge And Power Quotes

• Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Civilization, Doe, Links

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• Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

  Will Durant

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Deep Life, Knowledge Is Power

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

  Robin Morgan

  Peace, Knowledge, Humility

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Information Is Power

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Wise, Knowledge

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.339, Routledge

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• Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Men, Facts, Knowledge Is Power

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

  David Bailey

  Reading, Advice, Knowledge Is Power

  "This Much I Know: David Bailey". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

  Tom Clancy

  Information Knowledge, Government, People

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

  Paul Davies

  Ignorance, Evil, Trying

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• Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

  Francis Bacon

  Education, Latin, Knowledge

  'Meditationes Sacrae' (1597) 'Of Heresies'

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• I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

  Steve Sabol

  Mean, Thinking, Nfl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Happy, Education

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Use, Levels

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Sep 12, 2016

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• I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

  Benjamin Carson

  Fighting, Past, Decision

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• I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

  Mary J. Blige

  Husband, Educational, Book

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2006.

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• The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Diversity, Dying, Morbid

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• Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

  Lance Armstrong

  Attitude, Community, Knowledge Is Power

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• Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

  Tom Clancy

  Information Knowledge, People, Knowledge Is Power

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Learning, Evil, Study

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• Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

  Veronique Vienne

  Cat, Meditation, Syrup

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• Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Order, Remember, Life Is

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.6, Penguin UK

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• Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

  Ethel Mumford

  Memorable, Knowledge, Persons

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• The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Knowledge, Science, Power

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.7

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