A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
~ Walter Scott
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
~ Jean Piaget
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
~ Hilary Mantel
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.
~ Tom Clancy
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
~ Richard Dawkins
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
~ Alexander The Great
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
~ Robin Morgan
I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.
~ Miranda Kerr
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
~ Peter Drucker
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
~ Robert Staughton Lynd
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
~ Alvin Toffler
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.
~ Randeep Hooda
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
~ Pericles
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
~ Roger Babson
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
~ Plutarch
Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.
~ Conrad Burns
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
~ William Ellery Channing
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
~ Francis Bacon
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.
~ John Wycliffe
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
~ Thomas J. Watson
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
~ Carroll Quigley
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
~ James Prescott Joule
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~ William Shakespeare
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
~ Meister Eckhart
As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
~ Tom Landry
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
~ Aldous Huxley
The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
~ Roy Moore
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
~ Voltaire
I went to a nutritionist; my diet is pretty clean, but I wanted to get some more knowledge and understanding in some areas. My two favorite things, Clif Bars and lattes, she just destroyed in our first meeting. Coffee is fine, but soy is the most genetically modified food that we eat.
~ Andre Ward
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.
~ Lynn Jurich
My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
~ Randy Quaid
Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
~ Nancy Gibbs
I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.
~ Randi Weingarten
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
~ Lewis Thomas
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
~ Gerald F. Lieberman
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
~ Peter Lewis Allen
