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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.
Author: Francis Bacon
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Author: Henri Bergson
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A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind.
Author: Francis Bacon
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Author: Francis Bacon
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.
Author: Francis Bacon
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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.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Author: Francis Bacon
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Author: Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Author: Francis Bacon
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A man is but what he knows.
Author: Francis Bacon
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To know truly is to know by causes.
Author: Francis Bacon
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I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Author: Francis Bacon
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Author: Francis Bacon
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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.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Author: John Locke
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.
Author: Francis Bacon
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Author: Johann Von Goethe
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
Author: Richard Nixon
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...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
Author: Charles Darwin
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
Author: Henry Kissinger
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Author: Anthelme Brillat-savarin
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Author: Immanuel Kant
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Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Author: Cervantes
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Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
Author: Henry Adams
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Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Author: Richard Nixon
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Author: H.g. Wells
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Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.
Author: W.edwards Deming
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Author: Frederick Douglass
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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
Author: Ernst Mayr
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Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.
Author: Steve Allen
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Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.
Author: Heraclitus
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When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.
Author: Jiminy Cricket
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To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Author: Euripides
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
Author: Meher Baba
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.
Author: Democritus
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Author: Aesop
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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Author: Democritus
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It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Author: Democritus
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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
Author: Democritus
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
Author: Democritus
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There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
Author: Democritus
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Author: Democritus
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It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Author: Victor Borge
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