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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
Francis Bacon1561–1626The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, i, 3
I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Letter to Lord Burghley (ca. 1593)
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon1561–1626The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8
- Thinking
For knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597), “De Hæresibus” [Of Heresies]
- Power
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Jean Baudrillard1929–2007“The Implosion of Meaning in the Media,” p. 79
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Force of Circumstances Vol. III (1963) as translated by Richard Howard (1968)
- Happiness
I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it’s related to, and how it’s related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Weaving the Web (1999)
- Philosophy
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant1847–1933Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893), p. 357; 3rd edition (1908), p. 357
- Thinking
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 1:7 (KJV)In context
- God
- Wisdom
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 1:18 (KJV)In context
- Wisdom
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV)In context
- Faith
Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.
Josh Billings1818–1885“Sollum Thoughts”. in Everybody’s Friend: Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia & Proverbial Philosophy of Wit & Humor (1874)
To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit — General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess.
William Blake1757–1827Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses, pp. xvii–xcviii (c. 1798–1809)
- Intelligence
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
- Philosophy