17+ Francis H. Bradley Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Francis H. Bradley quotes and sayings.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — Francis H. Bradley

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. — Francis H. Bradley

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. — Francis H. Bradley

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. — Francis H. Bradley

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. — Francis H. Bradley

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. — Francis H. Bradley

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. — Francis H. Bradley

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. — Francis H. Bradley

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. — Francis H. Bradley

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. — Francis H. Bradley

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. — Francis H. Bradley

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. — Francis H. Bradley

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. — Francis H. Bradley

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — Francis H. Bradley

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. — Francis H. Bradley

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. — Francis H. Bradley

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. — Francis H. Bradley