Francis Bacon Quotes

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

Can you tell the difference between them?

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

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

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

What one fool can understand, another can.

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

[Warren] Harding is incapable of thought, because he has nothing to think with.

Intelligence is not to be confused with intelligence.