Quotes About Knowledge

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitation on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.

Power educates the potentate.

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Power is not powerful without wisdom.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.

Computers are like Old Testament gods

Doubts are good. Confusion is excellent. Questions are awesome.All these are attempts to expand the wisdom of mind.

Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn't amount to much.

Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.

Knowledge may be power, but cake has great bargaining properties

Ignorance is what is destroying us and not the devil.

If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.