Scientia potentia est that with knowledge or education, one's potential or abilities in life will certainly increase. Having and sharing knowledge is widely recognized as the basis for improving one's reputation and influence, thus power. This phrase may also be used as a justification for a reluctance to share information when a person believes that withholding knowledge can deliver to that person some forms of advantage. Another interpretation is that the only true power is knowledge, as everything (including any achievement) is derived from it. Terry Brooks. "First King of Shannara" Ballantine. C. 1996 Scientia potentia est The phrase "scientia potentia est"" (or
Subsistit in Subsistit in Subsistit in (subsists in) is a Latin phrase, which appears in the eighth paragraph of "Lumen gentium," a landmark document of the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church: This sentence and the correct meaning of "subsists in" affects the "definition of the Church" with important implications for how the Catholic Church views itself, its relations with other Christian communities and other religions. Questions have been raised, if "Lumen gentium" reworded the longstanding phrase, which stated that the Church of Christ is (Latin "est") the Catholic Church. "Lumen gentium" does recognize that other Christian ecclesial communities have elements