Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor Birth: January 22, 1561 Death: April 9, 1626
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom..
Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow..
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority..
All colours will agree in the dark..
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery..
Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority..
A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back..
You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes….
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider..
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much..
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue..
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps..
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity..
By far the best proof is experience..
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true..
Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a ….
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties..
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 ge….
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed..