They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon
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More Quotes By Francis Bacon
  1. 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.

  2. Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

  3. The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

  4. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

  5. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore...

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