Quote by Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it pl

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. – Francis Bacon

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Learning
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Reality
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The first casualty when war comes is truth. – Hiram Johnson

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. – Horace Mann

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Truth

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt

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Truth

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber

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Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault. – Nat Hentoff

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Everybody keeps saying that Indias a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty. – Vijay Mallya

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