Monument Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Monument Power Power of thought Science Wit
“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments. — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action. — William Wycherley 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
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington… — Morris Sheppard Copy Share Image
I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“They should build a monument,” Cary said. “All the times I got my ass beat to a pulp so the youth of today could… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
