Quotes About Empowerment

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.