Zeno of Citium Theory of Knowledge

The most powerful and most dangerous weapon in the world is knowledge.
 
Powerful to those that seek to shine light where there is darkness and dangerous to those that try to keep the darkness alive and feeding on your pity and fear.

"From this time he no longer restricted his outlook to force of character, but sought also for argumentative power and well ascertained knowledge. The foundations of his state must be surely laid, not upon the changing tide of opinion, but on the rock of knowledge. That a wise man should hesitate, change his views, withdraw his advice, he felt would be a bitter reproach[44]. If indeed virtue, the supreme good, is knowledge, must it not follow that knowledge is within the reach of man?" Pg 85- The Project Gutenberg eBook of Roman Stoicism, by E. Vernon Arnold.

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