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Quotes About Knowledge

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
~ Matthew Simpson
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
~ Yoko Ono
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
~ Horace Mann
Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.
~ Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
~ Simone Weil
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
~ Bertrand Russell
You are learned in the Word of God--And if you know His Word, you know His Will.
~ Will Eisner
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
~ Will Estes
learning a passion to learn is more important for your practical success than learning any particular facts or skills.
~ Will Richardson
Performance-based assessments, where students actually have to do something with what they know, tell us volumes more about their readiness for life than bubble sheets or contrived essays. No
~ Will Richardson
Access doesn't automatically come with an ability to use the Web well.
~ Will Richardson
Let me tweak that just a bit: "In times of great abundance, learners will inherit the earth...." Imagine
~ Will Richardson
Don't teach my child science; instead, teach my child how to learn science — or history or math or music.
~ Will Richardson
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
~ Will Rogers
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
~ Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
~ Will Rogers
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
~ Will Rogers
Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.
~ Will Rogers
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
~ Will Rogers
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
~ Will Rogers
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
~ Will Rogers
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
~ Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
~ Will Rogers