Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Accomplishment Quotes

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.

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Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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