Francis Bacon Quotes
Francis Bacon Quotes
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
4486Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
1401 We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?
4181 Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
2597 If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
3323 Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake...
3085 Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
4419 But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.
3958 Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
4011 the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
1702 A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
4504 Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
1058 God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
3770 Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
1080 Ipsa scientia potestas est.
Knowledge itself is power.
3087 Wonder is the seed of knowledge
2335 For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
2601 A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion
2441 Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
4703 They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
1613 For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
4611 Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
4617 Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
1536 The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
2730 A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
2502 Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
4468 Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
1816 Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
1477 Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
2628 The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
2648 The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.
4094 Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
1152 Money is a great servant but a bad master.
1046 Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
1505 Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
1330 Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
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