Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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