Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Knowledge is power.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.