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Quote by Francis Bacon
What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answe

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. – Francis Bacon

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. – Francis Bacon

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Happiness
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. – Katherine Mansfield

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I am aware that a philosophers ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Truth

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. – Alice Miller

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. – William Butler Yeats

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