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Quotation from The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
“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”
The Advancement of Learning, Book I, V.8 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500)
From the list of errors in learning: impatience of doubt and haste to assertion.
Citation: "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, The Advancement of Learning, Book I, V.8 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500). (id bacon-advancement-of-learning-q4)
