Quote by Francis Bacon
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for w

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Problems
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

Category:
Imagination
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Doubt
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Men
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Men

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. – Ayn Rand

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Men

Men know everything – all of them – all the time – no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are. – Andrea Dworkin

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Men

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Men

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Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. – Matthew Simpson

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My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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A lot of movies arent intended for everybody. – Tim Heidecker

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movies

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico. – Ernie Banks

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