Power Of Knowledge Quotes

• 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

  Knowledge And Power, Information Knowledge, Government

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

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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. 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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• The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Knowledge, Men

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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 comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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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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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• All men by nature desire knowledge.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 980a.21,

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

  David Bailey

  Reading, Knowledge And Power, Advice

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

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• They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Educated Women, Educated

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• Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wise, Science, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.23, Beacon Press

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• Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Power, Men

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

  Audre Lorde

  Knowledge, Emotional, Feelings

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Tom Clancy

  Knowledge And Power, Information Knowledge, People

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

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• It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

  Richard Dawkins

  Son, Thinking, Ideas

  "Religion and Atheism". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2012.

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• Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Responsibility, Buddhism, Sacrifice

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• The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Good Life, Signatures

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.224, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their knowledge! What must be the wisdom of Him, from whom all things derive their wisdom!

  Timothy Dwight IV

  Knowledge, Mind, All Things

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 275), 1895.

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• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  William Ellery Channing

  Confidence, Depressing, Attitude

  "Self-Culture" (address), Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838

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• I promise you, if you will heed the voice of warning of the Holy Ghost and will follow His direction, you will be blessed with the ministering of angels, which will add wisdom, knowledge, power, and glory to your life. Remember, the Lord is bound by solemn covenant to bless our lives according to our faithfulness.

  L. Tom Perry

  Blessed, Angel, Voice

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• Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

  L. Tom Perry

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Omnipotence

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• God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse)

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Kings, Intelligent, Order

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• Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Knowing, Years, Intuition

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• It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power and awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Buddhism, Night

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