"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
― Robert Staughton Lynd
Topic(s):
Power
More From 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."
- "Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
More In Power
- "You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again."― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- "Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter ‘found’ and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power."― Jerry Saltz
- "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."― Friedrich Nietzsche