Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Science Quotes

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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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

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The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

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Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

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All our knowledge begins with the senses...

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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

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

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And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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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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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

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