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Francis Bacon Quotes
Read not to
contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to
weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Rebellions of the
belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind
of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought
law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
Riches are a good
hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
Science is but an
image of the truth.
Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the
good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its
loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
Silence is the
sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Silence is the
virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Small amounts of
philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon
Some books are to
be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested.
Francis Bacon
Studies perfect
nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon
Studies serve for
delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
The best part of
beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon
The correlative to
loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our
neighbors.
Francis Bacon
The desire of
excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge
caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
The fortune which
nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon
The genius, wit,
and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
The great end of
life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon
The job of the
artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
The joys of
parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon
The momentous
thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon
The mould of a
man's fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon
The pencil of the
Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than
the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon
The place of
justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon
The remedy is
worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon
The root of all
superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it
misses.
Francis Bacon
The subtlety of
nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and
understanding.
Francis Bacon
The way of fortune
is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not
seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little
and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that
make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon
The wise man will
make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
The worst men
often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon
The worst solitude
is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon
There is a
difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the
happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is
generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
There is a wisdom
in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he
finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve
health.
Francis Bacon
There is as much
difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man
giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a
flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
There is no
comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which
is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
There is no
excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
Therefore if a man
look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be
blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
They are ill
discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but
sea.
Francis Bacon
They that will not
apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
Things alter for
the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better
designedly.
Francis Bacon
This communicating
of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it
redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
Francis Bacon
This is certain,
that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which
otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon
Travel, in the
younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of
experience.
Francis Bacon
Truth emerges more
readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
Truth is a good
dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error,
lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard
to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
Truth is the
daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a
rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon
We are much
beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what
they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command
Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
What is truth?
said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
When a man laughs
at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the
loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
Who ever is out of
patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
Who questions
much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
Wise men make more
opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
With a gentleman I
am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud
and a half.
Francis Bacon
Without friends
the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys
to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his
grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Francis Bacon
Wives are young
men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
Write down the
thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the
most valuable.
Francis Bacon
Young people are
fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel;
and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
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