There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.-- Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibus
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.-Francis Bacon_New Organon_I, Aphorism 42
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications. -- Francis Bacon, _Novum Organum_, 1620
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Discourse.
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Empire.
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