I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
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More Quotes from Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
