WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 25 May 2026 11:55:31 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg unabashed – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bacon, Francis -- Essays, “Of Boldness” (1625) https://wist.info/bacon-francis/34903/ https://wist.info/bacon-francis/34903/#respond Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:10:28 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34903 Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, “If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.”


Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
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