Ability Quote by Pythagoras

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage…

— Jim Rohn

Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation.

— Anonymous

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They…

— Ernest Hemingway

“There’s power in knowledge and a little power feeds the desire for more of it. If the knowledge is something that few others have…

— Jeffery Russell

Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.

— Amy Wax

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

— Eric Beinhocker

Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know.

— Aristotle Onassis

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

— Veronica Roth

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different…

— Humphry Davy

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a…

— Richard M. Weaver

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the…

— Samuel Johnson