Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Pride Quotes

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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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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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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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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