Francis H. Bradley Quotes

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

There is no proverb that is not true.

What men have seen they know. . . .

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.