Francis Bacon Quotes, Science Quotes, Understanding Quotes

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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