top of page

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Man, Mathematics, Study, Wit

5

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."

Explore more quotes by Francis Bacon

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Science is but an image of the truth."

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."

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

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Man, Men, Wrong

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Man, Men, Literature, Opinions, Reason

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"Genius: the superhuman in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

Jane Austen, British Writer

"I will praise any man that will praise me."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Man, Praise, Will

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Land, Sea

bottom of page