Francis Bacon Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

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  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  1625 Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Wisdom, Humility

• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  Francis Bacon

  Motivational, Hope, Wisdom

  J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36

• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

• One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• It is impossible to love and to be wise.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.39

• Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom

  "The Wisdom of the Ancients". Book by Francis Bacon, 1609.

• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Men, Evil

• We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Loss, Hands

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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