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True Quotes by Francis Bacon
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
- 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…
- The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind…
- There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most…
- If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature…
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde.…
- It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to…
- The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the…
- Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if…
- The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
- Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood