Francis Bacon Quotes

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

The less we know the more we suspect

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

How did they know?.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.