Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) English philosopher
Source: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), Ch. 1, sct. 1
“Knowledge itself is power.”
Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597) "De Hæresibus" [Of Heresies]
Variants:
Scientia Ipsa Potentia Est.
Scientia potentia est.
Knowledge is power.
Scientia potestas est.
Scientia est potentia.
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Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
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Variant: Knowledge is power and knowledge shared is power lost.
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(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 4, Section 4, p. 27
On the Trinity (417)
“Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.”
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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 207
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Peter Sloterdijk (1947) German philosopher
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 77
“Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.”
James Mackintosh (1765–1832) British politician
Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791).