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
Ite, missa est the assembly] is dismissed". However, according to Fortescue (1910), the word "missa" as used in this phrase is not the feminine participle (Classical Latin "missa"), but rather a Late Latin form of what would be "missio" in classical Latin, meaning "dismissal", for a translation of "Go, the dismissal is made". Chupungco (1999) noted that "some persons have attempted" to "sublimate" the straightforward meaning of the phrase into an interpretation of "missio" "dismissal" as "mission" (as in, "go and be a missionary"), but judges this interpretation as "without foundation". The connection between the meaning "dismissal" and the 'deeper' meaning of "mission"