Francis Bacon Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Foundation Quotes

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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Knowledge is power.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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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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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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

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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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