Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Robert Staughton Lynd
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. -
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. -
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. -
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
More quotes by 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.
- Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
- One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.