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Wisdom Quotes by Francis Bacon
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- 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…
- Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- 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…
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt…
- 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…
- Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
- You cannot love and be wise.
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold