Francis Bacon Quotes

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Francis Bacon

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Francis Bacon

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

Francis Bacon

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Francis Bacon

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

Francis Bacon

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Francis Bacon

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

Francis Bacon

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Francis Bacon

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Francis Bacon

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Francis Bacon

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Francis Bacon

All colours will agree in the dark.

Francis Bacon

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Francis Bacon

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Francis Bacon

Man was formed for society.

Francis Bacon

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Francis Bacon

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Francis Bacon

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Francis Bacon

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Francis Bacon

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Francis Bacon

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Francis Bacon

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Francis Bacon

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

Francis Bacon

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Francis Bacon

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

Francis Bacon

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Francis Bacon

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Francis Bacon

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Francis Bacon

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Francis Bacon

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Francis Bacon

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Francis Bacon

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Francis Bacon

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Francis Bacon

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Francis Bacon

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Francis Bacon

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

Francis Bacon

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

Francis Bacon

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Francis Bacon

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

Francis Bacon

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

Francis Bacon

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

Francis Bacon

Great changes are easier than small ones.

Francis Bacon
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