
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 192
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 192
“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”
Of Ceremonies and Respect
Essays (1625)
Variant: Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Source: The Essays
Original: (la) Quid est aliud de philosophia tractare, nisi verae religionis, qua summa et principalis omnium rerum causa, Deus, et humiliter colitur, et rationabiliter investigatur, regulas exponere? Conficitur inde, veram esse philosophiam veram religionem, conversimque veram religionem esse veram philosophiam.
De Divina Praedestinatione, ch. 1; translation from Kenelm Henry Digby Mores Catholici, vol. 8 (London: Booker & Dolman, 1837) p. 198.
“The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.”
Pt. III, ch. 3.
The Man of Genius (1891)
“Neither in the arts, nor in logic, nor in life should an idea by in any way treated as a thing.”
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”
No. 574 (30 July 1714).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame