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• 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. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Discovery, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot

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• Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Causes

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.90, Hackett Publishing

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• Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

  Lance Armstrong

  Attitude, Knowledge And Power, Community

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• If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

  James Moore

  Intelligence, Doe, Power Corrupts

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• Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.

  Cody Lundin

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• Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

  Randeep Hooda

  Knowledge And Power, Careers, Matter

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• Some people still think knowledge is power.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, People, Stills

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.35, Random House

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• Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

  Michelle Malone

  Goodbye, Song, Fall

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• The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

  Paul Davies

  Ignorance, Knowledge And Power, Evil

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• It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other man who does not know this and that. I have greater possibilities and also greater temptations. Anyone who deals with truth - as we theologians certainly do - succumbs all too easily to the psychology of the possessor. But love is the opposite of the will to possess. It is self-giving. It boasteth not itself, but humbleth itself.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Love Is, Men, Opposites

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• 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 giving it a hard look.

  Conrad Burns

  Believe, Knowledge And Power, Ideas

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• Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

  Lauren Myracle

  Smart, Kids, Figures

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• 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.

  Tavis Smiley

  Country, Information Is Power, Giving

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• The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Change, Clandestine, Ifs

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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

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• I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

  Steve Sabol

  Mean, Thinking, Knowledge And Power

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Falling In Love, Believe, Ignorance

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• The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Art, Writing, Men

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• Knowledge is power as well as fame.

  Rufus Choate

  Knowledge, Fame, Wells

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.410

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• The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

  Edward Miner Gallaudet

  People, Weight, Argument

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• Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.

  B. C. Forbes

  Flower, Science, Self

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• In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Average, Doe

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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