Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis BaconDisciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
Francis BaconBut this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Francis Bacon