Knowledge is power

Cultural  

1. The more one knows, the more one will be able to control events. This sentence is found in the works of Francis Bacon (see also Bacon).

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Example Sentences

Nonetheless, our motto on Amicus is “legal knowledge is power,” and in this case, historical understanding of legal knowledge … is power.

From Slate

“Just doing anything I can to be smarter and get more knowledge. Because knowledge is power.”

From Los Angeles Times

There’s truth in the old idiom: Knowledge is power.

From Los Angeles Times

“Knowledge is power, and understanding where you stand compared to your peers can be enlightening,” said Stanberry, who now runs The Purse, a newsletter that includes contributor confessionals about finances and household labor.

From Salon

Instead, activists who hope to battle the NAR’s political influence “need to know more than we do now about who they are and what they are about. If knowledge is power, we need more knowledge — and we need to spread it more widely.”

From Salon