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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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon

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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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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. – Hu Shih

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queens been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australias sort of national life theres a deep respect for her role. – Kevin Rudd

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I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they dont appreciate it. – Betty White

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