By far the best proof is experience.

—Francis Bacon

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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In charity there is no excess.

—Francis Bacon

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

—Francis Bacon

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

—Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

—Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

—Francis Bacon

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past.

—Patrick Henry

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

—James Boswell

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

—James A. Froude

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

—Franklin P. Jones

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