The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.
It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
Braille is knowledge, and knowledge is power.
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.
Foreknowledge is power.
If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.
It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.
Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy of the past has been to drive; but the era of force must give way to the era of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and lead, to the advantage of all concerned.
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.
Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.
If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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