Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
FRANCIS BACONIf 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.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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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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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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