It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.


Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately (ed. 1856)

Richard Whately Quotes

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former...

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former...

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former...

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former...