Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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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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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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