Quote by Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; na

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

Category:
Imagination
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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Innovation
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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

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Superstition
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Other Quotes from
History
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

Category:
History

The prime deaths of history star the textbooks like constellations of power. – Terri Guillemets

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History

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. – Lawrence Durrell

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History

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. – Hendrik Wilhelm van Loon, The Story of Mankind

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History

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. – Albert Camus

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Intelligence

Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures. – Mark Scharenbroich

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. – Alphonse Karr

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Happiness

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. – Charles Spurgeon

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Men