They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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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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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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