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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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. – Aristotle

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You dont have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. – Annie Leibovitz

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Love truth, but pardon error. – Voltaire

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. – George Bernard Shaw

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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. – George MacDonald

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Ive never really understood that. Its a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. – Joel Coen

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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. – Elie Wiesel

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and its better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and Id written a thousand stories. – Ray Bradbury

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