Knowledge Is Power Quotes

The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.

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

Ideas can never be defeated by military force. They can only be defeated by better ideas.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

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

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

That knowledge is power – that education is the citadel of liberty – that national glory and prosperity consist in the cultivation of the sciences, in the elevation of the liberal arts, in the extension of the powers of productive industry, are now considered as admitted truths and acknowledged axioms

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

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.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

We live by information, not by sight.