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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:1970
AUTHOR:Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
QUOTATION:Knowledge is power.—Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus.
 
Note 1.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.—Proverbs xxiv. 5.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.—Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, chap. xiii. [back]
 

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