Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to by their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty.
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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
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There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well.
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
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What is it then to have or have no wife, / But single thraldom, or a double strife?
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We cannot too often think there is a never sleeping eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts