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.

—Francis Bacon

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About Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy, guided by the scientific method, and his works...

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

—Francis Bacon

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

—Francis Bacon

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

—Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

—Francis Bacon

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

—Francis Bacon

More quotations tagged with “questioning”

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

—Stephen Jay Gould

There are two sides to every question.

—Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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