Quote by Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the

Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. – Francis Bacon

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. – Francis Bacon

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that Im one of the least competitive people youll ever meet. Except with myself. – Daniel Craig

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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. – Xenophanes

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Language is the house of the truth of Being. – Martin Heidegger

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All great truths begin as blasphemies. – George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska, 1919

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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos

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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty? – Mason Cooley

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Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. – Chen Shui-bian

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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism its egotism. – Harold S. Geneen

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