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 commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom
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Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, 1 their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed ...
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, yet to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us
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Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use
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Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true
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I would live to study, and not study to live.