Avery Brooks Quotes

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Knowledge is power.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Knowledge itself is power.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Read in order to live.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Everything is a learning experience.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

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

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Knowledge … is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams

Without knowledge we cannot act; with it we can and will.

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

For me, education is very important. It opens up vistas of life and makes it easy for you to deal with it, because if you learn from other people's experiences, it enhances your life.

Everything's a learning experience.

Knowledge is the real power.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.