If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
The empires of the future are empires of mind.
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
The liberating force of scientific knowledge is objectively expressed in the great achievements of technology. Whoever possesses technology has power of the earth and men. As a result of this, hitherto unknown forms of inequality have arisen between those who possess knowledge and those who are simple users of technology.
You could not let your masters see you read; but now [after Emancipation] the colored people are fond of sending their children to school. Because the children in after years will be able to tell us ignorant ones how to do for ourselves.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.
Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
Information is the hardest currency.
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.
True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
