Logo
Quote by Francis Bacon
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak accord

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Doubt
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Change
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. – Francis Bacon

Category:
God
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Learning
category

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all thats written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. – Robert Caro

Category:
Learning

I make personal appearances around the country. Im starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which Im doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas. – Burt Ward

Category:
Learning

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch. – Andres Iniesta

Category:
Learning

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John Morley

Category:
Learning

Random Quotes

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. – Colin Wilson

Category:
Romantic

To find love some day—there was a fit ambition for every human heart! But how often it was pushed aside by greed, by cynicism, by selfishness, by fear—by any number of cold and worldly things! – Burton E. Stevenson, The Kingmakers, “Chapter XIX: Selden Takes an Inventory,” 1

Category:
Love

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me. – Levon Helm

Category:
Music

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. Ive developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. – Martha Beck

Category:
Future