Francis Bacon Quotes, Nature Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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The goal is to know how not-to-know.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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All difficulties are easy when they are known.

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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

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Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

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