Top 15 Bacon's Essays Quotes

#1. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

Bacon's Essays Quotes #18424
#2. It takes only one child to raze a village.

Florence King

Bacon's Essays Quotes #122134
#3. What is a human being, then?'
'A seed.'
'A ... seed?'
'An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree.

David Zindell

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#4. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Francis Bacon

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#5. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, Of Beauty

Scott Westerfeld

Bacon's Essays Quotes #400123
#6. I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

Johnny Miller

Bacon's Essays Quotes #604581
#7. People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'

Peter Sis

Bacon's Essays Quotes #617858
#8. (Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

Richard Armour

Bacon's Essays Quotes #650217
#9. Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

John Piper

Bacon's Essays Quotes #690849
#10. The politics of the Essays preach a conservatism natural in one who aspired to rule. Bacon wants a strong central power. Monarchy is the best form of government; and usually the efficiency of a state varies with the concentration of power.

Will Durant

Bacon's Essays Quotes #727035
#11. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

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#12. Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon
the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination,
that all knowledge was but remembrance; so
Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is
but oblivion.
Francis Bacon: Essays, LVIII

Jorge Luis Borges

Bacon's Essays Quotes #966103
#13. For now he must lie low and try, through patience and the greatest consideration, to help his family bear the inconvenience he was bound to cause them in his present condition.

Franz Kafka

Bacon's Essays Quotes #1050542
#14. Remember, girl on fire," he says, "I'm still betting on you.

Suzanne Collins

Bacon's Essays Quotes #1107433
#15. Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

Kate Winslet

Bacon's Essays Quotes #1163536

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