The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.Francis Bacon
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
Francis Bacon
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first because one cannot hold out that proportion.
Francis Bacon
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis Bacon
Champagne for my sham friends real pain for my real friends.
Francis Bacon
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