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“This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.”

Knows Ideas Knowledge Bears Understood Scales Pairs Motto My Motto Emblems Interrogation

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.”

Wisdom Truth Age Religion Christ Perfect Knowledge Honesty Bears Purity Holiness Righteousness God Image

Book:The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

“God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.”

People Perfect Knowledge Bears Ought Quiet Goodness Complaining Gentle Endurance Imperfection Imperfect Defects Merciful

Author:Francois Fenelon

“For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.”

World Mind Education Knowledge Learning Bears Direct Educational Thinker Sensory Resemblance

Book:The Mind's Eye: Imagery in Everyday Life

Source: The Mind's Eye: Imagery in Everyday Life

“Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.”

Thinking Matter Forget Knowledge Bears Conversation Fruit Consideration

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.”

Source: Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd

“To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.”

Source: The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

“There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.”

“Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.”

Knowledge Bears Creator Witness

Book:Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo