 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 σελίδες
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 σελίδες
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 σελίδες
...affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. . . . Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use...that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."19 Here is a new note, which marks the end of scholasticism — ie, the divorce of knowledge... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 σελίδες
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.88 Throughout its versions this essay matures. In the process the element of experience... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 σελίδες
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in byexperience.68 Throughout its versions this essay matures. In the process the element of experience... | |
 | Colin Charles Bayne-Jardine, Peter Holly - 1994 - 164 σελίδες
...project commissioned by the LEA from Worcester College of Higher Education. As Francis Bacon wrote: 'crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them'. This evaluation report has been used to develop and refine an interactive model for training that will... | |
 | Nehgs - 1995 - 498 σελίδες
...Resources, Delivered before the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, May 9, 1872. By ALONZO TAFT. " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." — Lord Bacon. Cincinnati. Robert Clarke & Co. 1872. Mr. Taft has put into a compact form a very full... | |
 | Roy Bedichek, Jane Gracy Bedichek - 1998 - 494 σελίδες
...therein that one of the wisest men believes that studies are for delight, ornament and ability; and that crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. I shall have to believe, then, that you are "crafty," since you contemn them so vigorously, whereas... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 σελίδες
...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty3 men contemn* studies, simple* men admire4 them, and wise5 men use them; for they teach not their own use;* but...is a wisdom without them, and above them,* won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk... | |
 | Jon Frederickson - 1999 - 282 σελίδες
...names must remain anonymous, so to them I owe a special debt of gratitude. PREFACE "Crafty men condemn Studies, Simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use, but that there is a Wisdom without them, and above them won by Observation." Francis Bacon, "Of Studies," Essays... | |
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Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. 
