I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.
Copy QuoteKnowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Copy Quote View & ShareKnowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Copy Quote View & ShareHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe 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.
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