Famous Quotes

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

Robert Staughton Lynd on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Robert Staughton Lynd

• "Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."

• "Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."

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

• "One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

• "Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."