4 Quotes by Francis Bacon about mean
- Author Francis Bacon
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It is by discourse that men associate; and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations, wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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