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“Knowledge is power.”
The maxim connects understanding with the capacity to act effectively rather than treating knowledge as decoration.
Source note: From the Latin “ipsa scientia potestas est”; common English rendering.
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Anonymous early English translator (1598 translation tradition) · Latin → English
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