Knowledge is Power? Not Necessarily! – Modern mind control tactics employed by the mass media have been effective and making many half-truths ubiquitous, among them the catchy and sincere sounding phrase, “Knowledge is Power.” However, this statement is not true as knowledge is completely different from power and I can give an example of two things that are more powerful than knowledge.

First, wisdom is more powerful than knowledge. Wisdom comes from God and is attained through a combination of knowledge and experience. No amount of intellectual pursuit will make you more wise unless you also put your knowledge to use.

More powerful than wisdom is truth. Imagine all of the accumulated knowledge contained in an encyclopedia – if 10% of its information was in error, it would still contain a vast amount of knowledge but it’s value would be useless. Who would you ask first, the person who has an answer to every question but is sometimes wrong, or the person who does not always answer, but is always right when they do?

This is not to say that knowledge is worthless; ignorance is far worse. But the mindless absorption of knowledge without critical review and careful investigation will not give you true power. We laugh at the statement, “It’s on TV so it must be true,” but the fact is, we blindly accept TV, radio, newspaper, textbooks and teachers (including preachers) with little concern about their accuracy.