(309 quotes found)
“It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is”
“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
“The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery”
“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.”
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
