A Quote by Francis Bacon

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Francis Bacon

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Be True Believe Man True

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

Mason Cooley

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.

Martial

Why do people who consider themselves good communicators often fail to actually hear each other? Often it's due to a mismatch of styles: To someone who prefers to vent, someone who prefers to explain seems patronizing; explainers experience venters as volatile.

Mark Goulston

The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

Hermann Hesse

My man prefers meat over the bone.

Shakira

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

Karl Popper

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Samuel Johnson

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Sallust

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

Katarina Witt

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.