A Quote by Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

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Love Wisdom Impossible To Love Wise

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

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

Lois Duncan

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

Muhammad Ali

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

Rajneesh

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.

Norman Mailer

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Sophia Loren

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

Fran Lebowitz

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

Kabir

The wise are wise only because they love.

Paulo Coelho

Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.

Thiruvalluvar

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

William Butler Yeats

I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

Richard Gere

I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.

Cao Cao

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!