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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon
Wise, Wisdom, Clever

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon
Happiness, Wisdom, Humility

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.

Francis Bacon
Inspirational, Success, Wisdom
The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon
Motivational, Hope, Wisdom
J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon
Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Francis Bacon
Wise, Wisdom, Men

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon
Love, Wise, Wisdom
Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.39

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

Francis Bacon
Wisdom
"The Wisdom of the Ancients". Book by Francis Bacon, 1609.

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.

Francis Bacon
Wisdom, Men, Evil

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Francis Bacon
Wisdom, Loss, Hands
Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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