Sir Francis Bacon Quote

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil — or perhaps just of folly — when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles throu...

Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.

It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fat...

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty...

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.