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 BACONKnowledge itself is power.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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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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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.
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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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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