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Francis Bacon Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: english
Birth: January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

Topics

Happiness Wisdom Fool Man Difference

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

John Dalberg-Acton

Free Judge Security Country Test

We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.

John Tavener

Heart Yourself You Lost Will Human

My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

Marv Albert

Game Strong Relentless Steady

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Luciano Pavarotti

Myself I Am Hear Am Tenor Buff

I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Goal Only Form Oppose

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

Julia Hartz

Television Years Ground Show Off Get

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

Jonathan Winters

Painting Writing Comedy Doing Done

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

Chris Messina

Change People Me Youth Trying Done

Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.

Bobbi Brown

Beauty Style Woman Makeup Routine

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

William Golding

Man Done Others Him Does

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

Philip K. Dick

I Am Know Few Am Elect

The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.

Pep Guardiola

Change People Me Say People Say