Quote by Francis Bacon
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. - Francis Bacon

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a mans own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. – Francis Bacon

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every mans judgment. – Francis Bacon

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History
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It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. – Francis Bacon

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Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, youll never get it done. – Bruce Lee

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Time

The longest day soon comes to an end. – Proverb

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Time

You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? – Jeanette Winterson

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Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point. – Charles Francis Richter

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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. – Oprah Winfrey

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