By far the best proof is experience.
FRANCIS BACON
FRANCIS BACON
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon 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.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Books must follow sciences and not sciences books.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie Like a theory, we were. Declared. Never proven.
Lauren EdenLauren Eden If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me.
Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.
Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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