Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
FRANCIS BACONKnowledge itself is power.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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