Quotes by Bacon, Francis

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. >>

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are al >>

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring >>

Quotations about Wisdom

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. >>

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be r >>

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. >>

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis