Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Together Quotes

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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God loveth the clean.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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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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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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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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