what does the quote "knowledge is power" mean?

Answer 1

It means the more you know the more powerful you are.

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Answer 2

hhhmmm..... I've heard that since I was little and if there was more meaning behind the words I sure didn't get it. What I always found from those words was," The more you know, The more things you can do." I don't mean a job, necessarily, I mean many things. For instance, think about reading. If you didn't know how to read many things would be unavailable to you, You would have no "Power" to do what you need to without help. Or try the value of knowing a second or third language, That's an enormous power, If you ever went to another county where they spoke that particular language you'd be able to get around almost as good as a native. Knowledge IS Power. :D

Answer 3

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER - "Knowledge is a tool that can be used to control and change the world. The idea is found in the Old Testament. (A man of knowledge increaseth strength. Proverbs 24:5, King James Version.) Many authorities attribute this aphorism to British philosopher Francis Bacon (1597): Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. However, a similar phrase was used by Shakespeare in 'Henry VI' (1591). First attested in the United States in 1806. The proverb takes varying forms: Knowledge brings power; Knowledge itself is power."

Answer 4

According to Foucault, techniques of knowledge and strategies of power are mutually inherent. Power is based on knowledge and makes use of knowledge; on the other hand, power reproduces knowledge by shaping it in accordance with its anonymous intentions. Power (re-) creates its own fields of exercise through knowledge.

Foucault incorporates this inevitable mutual inherence in his neologism power-knowledge, the most important part of which is the hyphen that links the two aspects of the integrated concept together.

It is helpful noting that Foucault has a textual understanding of both power and knowledge. Both power and knowledge are to be seen as de-centralised, relativistic, ubiquitous, and unstable (dynamic) systemic phenomena. Thus Foucault’s concept of power draws on micro-relations without falling into reductionism because it does not neglect, but emphasizes, the systemic (or structural) aspect of the phenomenon.
Implications
According to this understanding, knowledge is never neutral, as it determines force relations. The notion of power-knowledge is therefore likely to be employed in critical, normative contexts.

Answer 5

I think that knowledge is power means that the more knowledge you have the more power you are capable of ubtaining. Power is the ability to get someone to do something they wouldn't normally do. So, this power could be a high ranked job or something to that nature.

Answer 6

It means the more you study the smarter you get so the more you learn the more you know so knowledge is power

Answer 7

knowledge is power
think about it, the most sucessful and powerful men, and civilizations in all the worlds history were centuries ahead of their time. Juliues Ceasar, archimedes, polonius, Isaac Newton. the Egyptians, Romans, Aztecs, Mayans, Incans, Greeks, Early Italians.
the more you know the more it is to your advantage. all of the above civilizations have contributed vast amounts of knowledge that is a base foundation for knowledge.

Answer 8

knowledge is the key for a good future, without knowledge you feel human-less, useless. Knowledge is the high road to take, which going to take you exactly where you wanted to go.

Answer 9

by knowing your stuff you can get power over people if someone tells you you are wrong and you tell them no and a very smart and edict answer you will get respect from them

Answer 10

the same as " ignorance is bliss " ?