Francis Bacon

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but read more

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his read more

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely
anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to
go along with him.
- Francis Bacon,