“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
“Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.”
“I would live to study, not study to live.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
“Science is but an image of the truth.”
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
“By far the best proof is experience.”
“It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”
“Reading maketh a full man.”
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
“Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”
“If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
“We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.”
“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”
“I believe in deeply ordered chaos.”
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake...”
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
“Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.”
“All colours will agree in the dark.”
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice.”
“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 certainties.”
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”
“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
“Without friends the world is but a wilderness.”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“To know truly is to know by causes.”
“Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.”
“Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.”
“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.”
“Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.”
“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.”
“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”
“For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.”
“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
“The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.”
“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”
“Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.”
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