|
Q back to general quotes |
|
|
|
|
Back to Daf's home page |
Back to main English page |
|
|
FRANCIS BACON |
|
For what a man would like to to be true, that he more readily believes. |
|
For what a man would like to to be true, that he more readily believes. |
|
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
|
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study. |
|
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. |
|
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted...but to weigh and consider. |
|
|
|
|
|
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. |
|
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. |
|
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. |
|
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. |
|
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. |
|
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. |
|
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half. |
|
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. |
|
Q back to general quotes |
|
|
|
|
Back to Daf's home page |
Back to main English page |
|
