Francis Bacon Quotes

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge itself is power.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

Information is power. --Humfrey

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Knowledge is the real power.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Knowledge is capital.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Knowledge is only potential power.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

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.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.