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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Francis Bacon
Christian, Book, Knowledge
Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon
Fall, Knowledge, Angel

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Francis Bacon
Knowledge

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.

Francis Bacon
Knowledge, Despair, Portraits

Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

Francis Bacon
Nice, Knowledge, Science
Francis Bacon (1858). “The Works”, p.48

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

Francis Bacon
Knowledge, Finals, Four
Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.114

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

Francis Bacon
Learning, Knowledge, Science
"Collected Works of Francis Bacon".

First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

Francis Bacon
Knowledge, Men, Names
Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.82

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Francis Bacon
Time, Knowledge, Knows
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Discourse'

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