Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. 2.27K
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. 638
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. 620
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. 649
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. 2.19K
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof. 887
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. 704
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road 638
We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. 801
