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Knowledge and human power are synonymous. -- Francis Bacon
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. -- Horace Mann
For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch. -- Evangeline Lilly
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. -- Vaclav Havel
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. -- Angelina Grimke
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Stop reliant on human effort. Seek divine power. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe in the power of the human spirit. -- Bob Harper
All power in human hands is liable to be abused. -- James Madison
All human power is a compound of time and patience. -- Honore de Balzac
Education is a human right with immense power to transform -- Kofi Annan
Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart. -- Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet
The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power. -- Mary Robinson
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity. -- George Gissing
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. -- Abraham Lincoln
God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness. -- Andy Stanley
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. -- Indira Gandhi
It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are. -- Naomi Wolf
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. -- Joseph Stalin
The more power that we have, the less human we are. -- Joss Whedon
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it. -- Honore de Balzac
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering. -- Byron Katie
No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity -- Nelson Mandela
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital. -- Ahmed Zewail
Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it. -- Alison Jolly
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake. -- Raymond E. Feist
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature. -- Gertrude Atherton
Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. -- John Adams
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. -- Anne Frank
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. -- Euripides
The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings. -- Daisaku Ikeda
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. -- Meryl Streep
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada. -- Farley Mowat
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality. -- A. C. Cuza
Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need. -- Wesley L Duewel
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. -- Matthew Heywood
The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart. -- Parker J. Palmer
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. -- Dan Brown
The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive. -- Jon Krakauer
The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. -- Lowell Milken
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature. -- Thomas Szasz
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! -- Maria Mitchell
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution. -- Alvin Toffler
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. -- David Harsanyi
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... ! -- Nancy Mitford
Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything. -- Dalai Lama
No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. -- John Jay Chapman
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature -- Nadine Gordimer
...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power... -- Jane Austen
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. -- Francois Fenelon
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient. -- Os Guinness
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. -- Mary Parker Follett
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. -- Chris Hedges
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. -- Edmund Burke
Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. -- Abraham Lincoln
There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend. -- Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good. -- Bryant McGill
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand. -- Abraham Verghese
No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another. -- Wendy McElroy
When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it. -- Debasish Mridha
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity -- G. B. Caird
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. -- John Adams
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. -- Caroline Myss
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. -- Ken Robinson
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul -- George Crumb
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. -- Rollo May
True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. -- Dalai Lama
I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness. -- Leland Dirks
How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power. -- Margaret Thatcher
Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first. -- Dalai Lama
The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do. -- Marcus Garvey
As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time. -- Shakti Gawain
Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. -- Brian Herbert
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. -- Hermann Weyl
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. -- T. S. Eliot
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people -- Wendell Phillips
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. -- Albert Camus
We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. -- Emma Thompson
Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it. -- Madame de Stael
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. -- Charlotte Bronte
Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision. -- Julia Alvarez
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves. -- Rachel Cusk
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. -- George Orwell
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. -- Alexander Hamilton
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. -- Herodotus
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism ... -- Angelina Grimke
What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power! -- Bryant McGill
Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do. -- Auliq Ice
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. -- Jane Fonda
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. -- Northrop Frye
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. -- Milan Kundera
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. -- J. William Fulbright
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. -- Matt Blunt
The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings. -- Billy Sunday
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself. -- Morgan Freeman
The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. -- Timothy Keller
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom. -- Harry S. Truman
Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. -- Vladimir Lenin
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. -- James Madison
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. -- Baruch Spinoza
And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create. -- Dean Koontz

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