Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Perfect Quotes

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

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And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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

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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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

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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

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