Francis Bacon Quotes
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
Ted Deutch -
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus -
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
Jack Ma -
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell -
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
Radhanath Swami -
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
T. E. Lawrence -
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Xun Kuang -
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
Harold Ramis -
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
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We are not by nature cruel.
J. M. Coetzee -
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
Tanya Tucker -
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James -
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski
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I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.
Laura Dern -
I had a fantastic time working on 'Twilight.' I loved our director Bill Condon. He was an absolute pleasure to work with.
Lee Pace -
As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
Artur Davis -
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Chinua Achebe -
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon