Dr. Samuel Johnson Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

by:	Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer
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Categories:	Integrity, Knowledge, Morals, Virtue
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-- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
I agree.A good example of this satement might be the development of the atomic bomb. -- KS., Somewhere,USA 1
Another example would be government licenses. -- Mike, Norwalk 2
As it is written: " Behold, thou shall be as gods, knowing good from evil." As Winston Churchill, in his Finest Hour speech expressed it: "...but if we fail, the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a New Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science(knowledge)..." -- Patrick Henry, Red Hill 1
Certainly! 'Knowledge is power,' and power without integrity is an insatiable beast. -- E Archer, NYC 1