Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
FRANCIS BACONIt is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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