Cunning Men Pass for Wise

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Francis Bacon – 1561-1626 - Part Two

English philosopher. The first credited with saying, "knowledge is power.” Bacon established the principles of the inductive method.

Alonso of Aragon was wond to say in commendation of age, that age apears to be best in four things – old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distates; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins to them.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready mand, and writing an exact man.

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