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Quotes About Power

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.
~ Paulo Coelho
People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.
~ Laozi
I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.
~ Frederick Lenz
Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.
~ Deepak Chopra
It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.
~ Ban Ki-moon
The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.
~ Robert Payne
To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
~ Laozi
Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!
~ John Webster
In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.
~ Frederick Lenz
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
~ Francis Bacon
Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.
~ John Keats
Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.
~ Frederick Lenz
Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
~ William Hazlitt
In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.
~ Frederick Lenz
Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
~ Howard Rheingold
Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?
~ Frederick Lenz
Knowledge itself is power
~ Francis Bacon
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
~ Samuel Johnson
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
~ Francis Bacon
Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.
~ Catherine the Great
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
~ Plutarch