Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Gaining knowledge directly increases human capability and influence.
- In plain terms
- Learning gives people more power.
- What can you take from it?
- Knowledge equals power.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How has learning empowered you recently?
Another view
Power requires responsibility to be beneficial.
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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