Suzan DelBene Quotes

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

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

I'm not saying that people should believe in a specific thing or a specific way, but if everyone has the knowledge they need to have, then they can make their own decisions. That's the key thing: to have the information.

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

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

An educated people can be easily governed.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

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

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

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

There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding … as we are ourselves.

We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

If people are educated, they will know what they need.

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.