Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACONWonder is the seed of knowledge.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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