Quotes of: Knowledge-is-power Keyword

A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession with power goes hand in hand with a fear of power...

Carey McWilliams

No one is without knowledge except he who asks no questions.

African

Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance.

Traditional

If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.

Vietnamese

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It's not that somebody shouldn't have specialized knowledge. The ability to dig a trench and lay a cable is...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue

Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application

Becoming conscious and aware is a journey itself, and we all struggle in that journey we call life. Instead of judging one another, help each other, not by convincing them of your truth but through letting them think for themselves by spreading knowl...

Nynke Visser

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acqui...

Willis R. Whitney

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

Hausfrau

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

The Raw and the Cooked

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Henry Petroski

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

Rajib Lochan Dhibar

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

He who raises a question opens knowledge and he who gives an answer limits knowledge

Respicius Rwehumbiza

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Leland Ryken

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

Harvey Mackay

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

William Hurt

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

Fabiola Gianotti