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Biography - Francis Bacon:

English philosopher and statesman.
Born: 1561 - Died: 1626
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon


Note 

Note



Quote commonly attributed to Francis Bacon. The expression "ipsa scientia potestas est" ('knowledge itself is power') occurs in Bacon's Meditationes Sacrae (1597)

Wikipedia - Scientia potentia est 



Knowledge is power.


Translation

Translation

(German, French, Latin)



German
Wissen ist Macht.
Francis Bacon

French
Savoir, c'est pouvoir.
Francis Bacon

Latin
Scientia potentia est.



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Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



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Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 





Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





All I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates / 





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






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Quotes for: power


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Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Gustav Jung - Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten / 





We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Martin Luther King Jr. / 





They succeed, because they think they can.
Publius Vergilius Maro - Aeneid / 





Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand Russell / 





He who can, does. He who can't, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw / 






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Francis Bacon also said...


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon - Essays / 





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon - Novum organum / 





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon / 





Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Francis Bacon / 





If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon / 





Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon / 







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