Francis Bacon Quote

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is ...

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is ...

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is ...

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is ...