Common Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common people People Praise Vain Virtuous
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who have learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves. — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by. — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image