Knowledge is power. The devil it is! One man can have a gre… - Arthur Schopenhauer

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Knowledge is power. The devil it is! One man can have a great deal of knowledge without its giving him the least power, while another possesses supreme authority but next to no knowledge.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Essays and Aphorisms · May 30, 1973 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).

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