Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon
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
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon