Carolina QuotesIn the popular arena, one can tell … that the average man … imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 13
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 13
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