 Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. For the experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth them, but in new things, abuseth...  Philosophical works - Page 295by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...natures may do well in youth. As it is seen in Augustus Caesar, Cosmus Duke of Florence, Gaston de Fois, things, abuseth them. The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men... | |
 | Robert Eastman Woodruff - Railroads - 1925 - 302 pages
...only for his department, but for his own progress in his chosen work. CHAPTER XV PLANNING THE WORK "Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter...fitter for new projects than for settled business." — Francis Bacon. The Unskilled Planning of an Indian — While walking track one day through an Indian... | |
 | John Henry Grafton Grattan - English language - 1925 - 354 pages
...grieves at it, is a saint ; that boasteth of it, is a devil." FULLER, The Holy and Profane State. (b) " Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter...fitter for new projects than for settled business." BACON, Of Youth and Age. (c) "All was simplicity, ease, and vigour. He uttered his short, weighty,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...natures may do well in youth. As it is seen in Augustus Cœsar, Cosmus Duke of Florence, Gaston de Fois, »cttled business. For the experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 494 pages
...believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything. — OSCAR WILDE. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter...fitter for new' projects than for settled business. — FRANCIS BACON. Towering in the confidence of twenty-one. — SAMUEL JOHNSON. The atrocious crime... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...almost, of all the list. But reposed natures may do well in youth. As it is seen in Augustus Caesar, Cosmus Duke of Florence, Gaston de Foix, and others....within the compass of it, directeth them; but in new things, abuseth1 them. The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men... | |
 | Mary C. Rabbitt - Mineral lands - 1979 - 786 pages
...Becker was 53; the other five were all younger, barely into their forties. Francis Bacon observed that "Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter...fitter for new projects than for settled business." The division chiefs might almost have been chosen with this observation in mind. The oldest, Emmons... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...discourse than by a day's meditation."34 In the essay "Of Youth and Age" he puts a book into a paragraph. "Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter...within the compass of it, directeth them; but in new things abuseth them. . . . Young men, in the conduct and management of actions, embrace more than they... | |
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