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Learning Quotes by Francis Bacon
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
- People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
- Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,…
- But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered…
- Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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