676 quotes found
“For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.”
“I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.”
“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.”
“If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, t...”
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”
“The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of histor...”
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.”
“I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.”
“The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of th...”
“What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of know...”
“The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.”
“Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.”
“There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.”
“But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.”
“An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder,...”
“Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't le...”
“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.”
“As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of t...”
