Quotes About Knowledge

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

Ignorant power is a bane!

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Greatness knows itself.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.