Francis Bacon Quotes, Learning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

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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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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

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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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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

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