The best Quotes from Meditationes Sacræ

The best Quotes from Meditationes Sacræ

For knowledge, too, itself is power.
(Col. 'Knowledge is power.')

Francis Bacon

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Knowledge Intelligence

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

1

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

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Light Darkness Good & Evil

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

Age Wine Wood & Lumber

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon

My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations and to the next age.

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He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

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Traveling Languages

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon in Essays

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Francis Bacon

1

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

1

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon in Essays

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Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.

Francis Bacon

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

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Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Knowing where you're going can be confusing. Trust your instincts.

Alice In Wonderland

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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

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Knowledge Intelligence

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Thomas Aquinas

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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Character Knowledge Respect

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

4

Knowledge Society Science Wisdom

That's what I do. I drink and I know things.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 6 Episode 2

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Knowledge Alcohol

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don't know - the less you know, the more you think you know.

David T. Freeman

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Knowledge Foolishness Intelligence

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

2

Books Knowledge Reading

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

2

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

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Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

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Intelligence Men & Women Singles & Dating

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

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Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

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Imagination Intelligence

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Intelligence Gossip & Rumors

You're asking me to use my superior intellect in a tawdry competition. Would you ask Picasso to play Pictionary? Would you ask Noah Webster to play Boggle? Would you ask Jacques Cousteau to play Go Fish?

Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Season 1 Episode 13

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That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Helmut Schmidt

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Foolishness Intelligence Doubt

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

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Genius Problems Intelligence

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

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Alcohol Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

4

Intelligence Silence

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

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Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

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Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

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"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

Dmitry Glukhovsky in Metro - 2033

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

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