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Quote by Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we be

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon

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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. – Albert Camus

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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. – Chinese Proverb

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There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. – Scotty Bowman

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A womans guess is much more accurate than a mans certainty. – Rudyard Kipling

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