Francis Bacon Quotes, Fall Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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To know all things is not permitted.

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We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

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Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

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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 comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."

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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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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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