Quotes About Power

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

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

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

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

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

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

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.