Haile Selassie Quotes

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

We can destroy only as creators

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

You cannot kill what you did NOT create

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

Knowledge is not power unless it is used.