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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

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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Poetry
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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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good
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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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Philosophy
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Francis Bacon
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Truth
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. – Hannah Arendt

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Truth

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. – H. P. Lovecraft

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Truth

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. – H. L. Mencken

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Truth

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. – John Dryden

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Truth

Random Quotes

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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Poetry

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. – Remy de Gourmont

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Intelligence

When money is taken freedom is forsaken. – Proverb

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Money

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way youre living your life. I wouldnt compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where its about a man who doesnt appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that. – Adam Sandler

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Learning