"There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience."

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Source : 1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

Roger Bacon

#Inspirational Quotes #Two Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.”
“What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!”
“She pulled away and looked at him. 'I kissed you and you left.' When Kat heard the pounding, she thought it was the beating of her heart. It was too loud, she thought. Hale was going to hear it; he was going to see it; and he was going to know how much power he had to hurt her.”
“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
“It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice Alone”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
“Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.”
“Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.”
“However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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