Knowledge Is Not Power Knowledge is an expression of the shared responsibilities for the collective well-being of humanity

I have written in my blook that knowledge alone is not power.

Knowledge alone is not power.

Self-motivation, taking responsibility, and the ability to act on knowledge and to influence and work with people, especially those in authority, is power.

Credit: David Gurteen

But I rather like this definition of knowledge by Jeremy Rifkin in his book The Empathic Civilization.

The traditional assumption that “knowledge is power” and is used for personal gain is being subsumed by the notion that knowledge is an expression of the shared responsibilities for the collective well-being of humanity and the planet as a whole.

Credit: Jeremy Rifkin

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