Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Knowing Quotes

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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