Quotes on Knowledge And Power

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.