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 generally the greatest fool.

Quote by Francis Bacon

Topics: Happiness Quotes

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to...

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to...

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of...

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of...

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and...

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and...

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be...

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be...

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel;...

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel;...

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments...

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments...

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job...

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job...

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Time is the measure of business.

Time is the measure of business.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to,...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to,...

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

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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

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