Books Quote by Thomas de Quincey

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the…

— Thomas de Quincey

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power.…

— Thomas de Quincey

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained…

— Leland Ryken

“knowledge is power.” It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized…

— Napoleon Hill

“It is not the activity of the subject of knowledge that produces a corpus of knowledge, useful or resistant to power, but power-knowledge, the…

— Michel Foucault

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

— George Washington

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

— Mark Van Doren

I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.

— George Washington

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

— Thomas de Quincey

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

— George Henry Lewes

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

— Zephyr Teachout

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

— Amos Oz