Francis Bacon Quotes

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  

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• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

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• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

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• I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
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• I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

  

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• Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
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• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Warren
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• I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

  

  Samuel Barber
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• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Religion

• I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.

  

  Emily Yoffe
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• Ognev recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

  

  Mario Andretti
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• I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

  

  Amanda Marshall
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• There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

  

  Francis Bacon
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  • Man