Wisdom Quotes
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Francis Bacon Quotes

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The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

- Francis Bacon

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

- Francis Bacon

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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

- Francis Bacon

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

- Francis Bacon

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Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed.

- Francis Bacon

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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

- Francis Bacon

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A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

- Francis Bacon

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.

- Francis Bacon

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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and disgested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.

- Francis Bacon

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

- Francis Bacon

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

- Francis Bacon

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

- Francis Bacon

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

- Francis Bacon

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

- Francis Bacon

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

- Francis Bacon

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

- Francis Bacon

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