quotes about Knowledge And Power
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The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
The Holy Ghost serves . . . as a revelator, revealing great, new, and important truths. God, with his infinite knowledge and power has developed a system of communication far superior to anything mortals have yet developed or even conceived. Through the Holy Spirit, he is able to communicate with his children instantly, individually, and personally.
-- Daniel H. Ludlow -
A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.
-- Frederick Lenz -
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
-- Gabriel Garcia MarquezSource : Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.6, Penguin UK
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
-- John Ruskin -
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.
-- L. Tom Perry -
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.
-- Lorenzo Snow -
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
-- Michel FoucaultSource : Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press
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The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.
-- Slavoj ŽižekSource : Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?”, Verso Books
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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
-- Vine Deloria Jr. -
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.
-- Virchand Gandhi -
Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.
-- Veronique Vienne -