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Quote by Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon

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I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. – Gerald Barzan

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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. – Morris Bender

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Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. – Chinese Proverb

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Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you dont have any doubts you are either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. – Frederick Buechner

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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie

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