Knowledge And Power Quotes

'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.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.

... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.

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.

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

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.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

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.

Each of the seven chakras references different dimensional planes. It is a turnstile that leads us into different dimensions. As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?