A Quote by Francis Bacon

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

Shiv Khera

False praise is worse than no praise.

Felix Dennis

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

Ann Coulter

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

Charles Caleb Colton

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

Dean Smith

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Alice Walker

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

Mark Twain

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

John Ruskin

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

Alice Walker

Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

Erik Adigard

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm sorry, dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans.

Rudy Giuliani

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

Kristen Stewart

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Mike Gravel

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