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 content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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power
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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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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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Imagination
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You can see a lot by just looking. – Yogi Berra, also often quoted as “You can observe a lot by just looking.” (origi

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Philosophical

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Philosophical

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. – Norman Cousins

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Philosophical

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle

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Philosophical

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. – William Blake

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Imagination

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. – George Osborne

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Politics

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects – digitize and dematerialize – we approach a Star Trek future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles. – James Wolcott

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Future