Quote by Francis Bacon
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving r

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

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Fame
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

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Change
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What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Reality

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. – Serge Daney

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Reality

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. – Frank Tyger

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Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesnt go away. – Philip K. Dick

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The internet is not for sissies. – Paul Vixie

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Im not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say See, you did it yourself. – Alice Walker

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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in mens heads. – Fogg Brackell

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I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. Its a way of life for me. – Ayrton Senna

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