Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACONHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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