Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Differences Quotes

Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

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If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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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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