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“History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is ...”
“Knowledge is power.”
“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.”
“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”
“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”
“I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.”
“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”
“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.”
“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”
“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.”
“Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.”
“Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without ...”
“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”
“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”
“In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such minist...”
“America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accept...”
“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”
“This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil...”
“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
