Quote by Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by st

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into mens heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. – Francis Bacon

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Doubt
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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Nudity
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. – Will Rogers

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Experience

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Experience

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. – Franz Kafka

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Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. – Pope John Paul II

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