Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Despair Quotes

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

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The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

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One cannot know everything.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

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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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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Perspective Quotes

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Mind Quotes

That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Eye Quotes