4 Potentia Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous potentia quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational potentia quotes. Hopefully, these potentia quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your potentia knowledge!
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. — William Safire
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell
Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which he attains by means of the senses. For this cause he must have the phantasms and the forms of objects present in themselves and in their likenesses; otherwise it cannot be, for, as philosophers say: Ab objecto et potentia paritur notitia. That is: From the object that is present and from the faculty, knowledge is born in the soul. Wherefore, if one should speak to a man of things which he has never been able to understand, and whose likeness he has never seen, he would have no more illumination from them whatever than if naught had been said of them to him. — Saint John of the Cross
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti. — Thomas Hobbes
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