Top 100 Power And Knowledge Quotes
#1. We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.
Frederick Lenz
#2. The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it. He
Clifford D. Simak
#4. The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
Jacob Bronowski
#5. I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge," I say. "To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don't want it." - Tris
Veronica Roth
#6. If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.
Frederick Lenz
#7. Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
Dejan Stojanovic
#10. Life is meaningless until we learn to use the power of divine love and see the divine in every event and in every beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams.
Robin S. Sharma
#12. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.
William Golding
#14. When we will learn to use the power of kindness and love we will fill the world with peace and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#15. If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge ...
Orson Pratt
#16. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#17. She captured the spot of my world's centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.
Richard Ronald Allan
#18. The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey
#19. The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#21. They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
Lord Byron
#22. We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.
James Dillet Freeman
#23. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use
Thomas Watson
#24. Knowledge is power and you need power in this world. You need as many advantages as you can get.
Ellen DeGeneres
#25. If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault
#26. Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is ... In knowledge there is power.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#27. Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge ... the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel ... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.
Louis Farrakhan
#28. And what else is it that men seek in life but power? If they want money, it is but for the power that attends it, and it is power again that they strive for in all the knowledge they acquire. Fools and sots aim at happiness, but men aim only at power.
W. Somerset Maugham
#29. As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Veronica Roth
#31. 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.
#32. For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world ...
Audre Lorde
#33. This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
Barack Obama
#34. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.
Alan Jacobs
#35. Knowledge is power. It
is my hope that as we continue to do what women do best-network, guide, and
provide support for each other-POP will soon become common knowledge.
Sherrie J. Palm
#37. the Bible was to him the vehicle of God's power first, and secondly of our knowledge of Him.
John Calvin
#38. What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.
Paul Valery
#39. Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#40. Love + truth = strength
Love + knowledge = influence
Love + understanding = power
Love + wisdom = enlightenment
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion.
Luis Marques
#42. THE RIGHT INFORMATION BRINGS KNOWLEDGE. AND KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. SHARING IT IS EMPOWERMENT.
Seth Godin
#43. See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.
Lauren Kate
#45. Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden.
Kelly Barnhill
#46. To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#47. I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Yoshihiko Noda
#48. I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
Walter Gilbert
#49. It teaches that there is the soul, and inside this soul is all power. It is already there, and if we can master this body, all the power will be unfolded. All knowledge is in the soul. Why
Swami Vivekananda
#50. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and, therefore, like power.
Susan Sontag
#51. What have you done with your knowledge and priesthood power that those without have not done this week? If you cannot answer that with power every day, what does that say about you?
Glenn Beck
#52. Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God's unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.
L. Tom Perry
#56. Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
Jodi Picoult
#57. God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.
Brigham Young
#58. Remember the art of the mind, mouth, and ear? Well the ear feeds into the mind and that leads to knowledge. That leads to power. Remember that saying: Knowledge is power?
Michele Gilbert
#59. Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?
Frederick Lenz
#60. An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew
Michael Bassey Johnson
#61. This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#62. Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.
Frederick Lenz
#63. I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
George Bernard Shaw
#64. And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
Rachel Hartman
#65. The tree is only as strong as its roots, and knowledge is the root of power.
Joe Abercrombie
#66. A wizard's power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#67. According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.
Virchand Gandhi
#68. If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.
George Orwell
#69. Love is my love, power, strength, wealth, and purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness, how unswerving his immutability, how infinite his power, how limitless his knowledge!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#71. A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#72. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)
Seymour Simon
#73. The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.
Robert Payne
#74. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both
James Madison
#75. Knowledge is the greatest power and it is something no one can see. It cannot be stolen or broken, No one can take it from you.
John Carrick
#76. The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God's great knowledge, their abilities versus God's priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works.
Ezra Taft Benson
#77. At the core, all successful businesses sell some combination of money, status, power, love, knowledge, protection, pleasure, and excitement. The more clearly you articulate how your product satisfies one or more of these drives, the more attractive your offer will become.
Josh Kaufman
#78. As an independent source of authority and knowledge, science has always had the capacity to challenge ruling powers' ability to control people by controlling their beliefs. Indeed, it has the power to challenge anyone who wishes to preserve, protect, or defend the status quo.
Naomi Oreskes
#79. Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.
Ernestine Rose
#80. After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
James Prescott Joule
#81. Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self.
Tammy-Louise Wilkins
#82. Learning is knowledge and knowledge is freedom and power. He knew that. He had forgotten that, somehow. But he knew it once more.
Oliver Bowden
#83. Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
Dean Koontz
#84. Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
#85. In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#86. How you accept a situation, is your choice and depends on your power of perception.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to reveal the errors in our beliefs.
Matthew A. Petti
#88. Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. Knowledge is power; and power is best shared among friends.
Otis Chandler
#90. And so Betsie and I arrived in Barracks 8 in the small hours of that morning, bringing not only the Bible, but a new knowledge of the power of Him whose story it was.
Corrie Ten Boom
#91. 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.
Ban Ki-moon
#92. Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant
#93. Those who learn to love unconditionally possibly know the power of love and it's beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#94. I began to pray for help with what I needed and wanted as well as for the knowledge of God's will for me and the power to carry it out. Immediately, I felt a heightened sense of spiritual companionship.
Julia Cameron
#95. You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.
Angelina Jolie
#96. An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#97. What I am about to set forth is our system for gaining power over the people of the world. We have two things that will help us achieve this: we have ourselves, with our knowledge, intentions, scheming and actions, and we have the unawareness of the mass of the people.
Paul Bowden
#98. When you gain maximum knowledge in any area of work and put it into practice, no power
Sunday Adelaja
#99. God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.
Monica Johnson
#100. Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.
Stuart Wilde
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