Knowledge quotes by Sir Francis Bacon

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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
"Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
"Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything."
"Knowledge itself is power."
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."