Quotes of: Knowledge-is-power Keyword

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to li...

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

Think and Grow Rich

You will know my power when you feel me compress you into a ball and bowl with you. I make love like I just rented these fabulous shoes.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Love is more powerful than any gun. Still, I’d recommend wearing a bulletproof vest.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

An anonymous man has no power, because nobody knows who he is. But he also has all the strength, because he can attack invisibly and without being identified.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say?

Ulysses

If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter...

Unknown

There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.

Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.

Venus in Furs

The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

The Virgin Suicides

We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God’s faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.

What Are You Afraid Of?

To fear only God’s power with trembling and dread without fearing (or respecting) His astonishing love is an incomplete response that diminishes our experience and enjoyment of Him.

What Are You Afraid Of?

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

Wellness Wisdom - Inspired by One Woman's Journey with Breast Cancer

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

White Night

While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"