Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Giving Quotes

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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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

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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 is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

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

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

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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

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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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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

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All things are known to the soul.

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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

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

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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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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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