"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 gene...
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
More Francis Bacon quotes
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
"Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s observation, what he finds ...
"We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisd...
"Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and ab...
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
"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 gene...
"Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s observation, what he finds ...
"We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisd...
"Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and ab...
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.