Quotes About Influence

It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

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

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

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

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.