Francis Bacon on beginning
Francis Bacon56 quotes“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Books must follow sciences and not sciences books.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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James BaldwinJames Baldwin To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
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Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
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