A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACONBy far the best proof is experience.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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