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Quotes About Power

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
~ Steve Sabol
Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
~ Jim Butcher, White Night
If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.
~ Danielle LaPorte
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.
~ Vera John-Steiner
When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.
~ Frederick Lenz
True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
~ Ameen Rihani
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
~ James Madison
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.
~ Paul Valery
Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.
~ Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.
~ Bob Walker
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.
~ Irving Azoff
Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous
~ Michael Scott
Some people still think knowledge is power.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
~ Andrew Vachss
These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.
~ Frederick Lenz
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
~ Walter Gilbert
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.
~ Neil Gaiman
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
~ Francis Bacon
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.
~ Paul A. Baran
Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
~ Jodi Picoult
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
~ Herbert Spencer
I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.
~ Maria V. Snyder
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.
~ Thomas de Quincey