"Foreknowledge is power."

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Source : "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Alan Lindsay Mackay, 1991.

Auguste Comte

#Knowledge Is Power Quotes

“As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.”

Source : Heidi Hayes Jacobs (2010). “Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World”, p.7, ASCD
“The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.”
“the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.”
“We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed”
“Mistake is a mistake only if you make it twice...”
“Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.”
“If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had.”
“A woman is a sometime thing.”

Source : DuBose Heyward (2003). “A DuBose Heyward Reader”, p.121, University of Georgia Press

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