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What is most helpful for man's success in life – knowledge, power or wealth?

Knowledge:

• "Knowledge is power", says Thomas Hobbes, and rightly so. In whatever walk of life we may see, we find knowledge reigning supreme.
• A doctor earns name and fame because of knowledge of medicine, an engineer gains social prestige due to his technical knowledge and a lecture or professor is respected because he makes careers of so many because of his specialized knowledge of a particular subject.
• Thus, it is knowledge alone that ensures our success in whatever we do.
• While a politician benefits from the knowledge of human psychology and behaviour as also that of administering the nation, lawyers and judges enjoy power and prestige by commanding legal knowledge.
• Knowledge is wealth. Right knowledge of market conditions enables one to earn handsomely as a trader, stock broker or industrialist.
• A well educated person can get a well paid job. Those having knowledge of technology can become great engineers earning a fat salary, knowledge of human body and its ailments makes one fit to join medical profession and earn a lot.
• One who has knowledge of the syllabuses and courses of study and interviews for higher competitive examinations can become a high gazette officer and make one's dream come true by earning both prestige and high salary.
• A man wanting in knowledge has to lead a miserable and poor life. The reason why most of the illiterate people remain poor is that they do not get a good well paid job.

Power:

• Power is most helpful to achieve success in life. Even knowledge is easy to come by if one has power for, then, one can command even professors and specialist to supply one with any kind of knowledge one wants.
• Hitler and Mussolini ruled over their countries because they had power.
• Today in international politics and relations, we witness the sole super power, the United States of America, ruling over the rest of the nations, virtually, for they are bounded to kow-tow to her and do her bidding.
• Knowledge can have any value only if it has power to prove its capability. No matter how excellent plans one has for the betterment of one's country but without political power to implement them they remain mere non entities and useless.
• Wealth of any use only if it can be protected from robbers and others. Relatives are ever ready to job the inheritance of a weak person through legal and other means.

Wealth:

• Knowledge is of no use or worth if there is no wealth. In our country there is no dearth of knowledge people but since they have no money to back them up they fail in life and do not get due recognition of their capability and knowledge.
• We cannot imagine of power if there is no wealth. They are natural concomitants. They old saying goes "money makes the mare go".
• People obey you only if they are paid for you pay them. Soldiers fight for you only if they are paid for their services.
• Even powerful nations of the world like United States woo it because it has become an economic superpower of the world; through militarily it is far behind these very same nations.