A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
FRANCIS BACONIt is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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