Logo
Quote by Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things h

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Honor
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Superstition
category

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

Category:
Superstition

It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. – Proverb

Category:
Superstition

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Superstition

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Superstition

Random Quotes

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that havent been made easier technically. – Brian Eno

Category:
Music

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. – Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925

Category:
Perspective

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not. – Alain Prost

Category:
car

Its horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesnt bring them the happiness they think it will. – Miuccia Prada

Category:
Happiness