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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Wise men make more opportunities than they find (Francis Bacon Quotes)
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue (Francis Bacon Quotes)
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs (Francis Bacon Quotes)
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The surest way to prevent seditions... is to take away the matter of them (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home (Francis Bacon Quotes)
For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state (Francis Bacon Quotes)
…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives… (Francis Bacon Quotes)