Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
FRANCIS BACONWonder is the seed of knowledge.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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