What is bear on?

Famous quotes containing the word bear:

    [One cannot express lack of knowledge in affirmative language.] This idea is more firmly grasped in the form of interrogation: “What do I know?”Mthe words I bear as a motto, inscribed over a pair of scales.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)