Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
More Quotes from Francis Bacon:
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.Francis Bacon
Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch.
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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