Francis Bacon Quotes

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Francis Bacon

• Absurdity
• Seldom
• Boldness

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• The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Modern
  • System
  • Absurdity

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Past

• I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • May

• When you’re young, hungry and stupid you’ll do whatever it takes.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Stupid

• I'm really influenced by so many different things.

  

  Alex Winter
  • Different

• After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• The belt doesn't represent me; it's how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • People
  • Champion

• I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

  

  Charlie Hunnam

• I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Truth
  • Justice

• I always say I want to look haunted.

  

  Kristen Wiig

• The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

  

  Mark Twain
  • Know
  • Worked
  • Seldom

• Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Meaningful

• it will be a good long time before there's upward pressure on prices or wages.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Bad
  • Existence
  • Fantasy

• The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Aim
  • Concentrate

• People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.

  

  Fulton Oursler
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Brother

• We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Confidence
  • Enemies
  • Inspires

• Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

  

  Whittaker Chambers
  • Experience
  • Innocence
  • Seldom

• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Exception
  • Absurdity

• This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Kindness
  • Meaningful
  • Appreciate

• Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Absurdity
  • Seldom
  • Boldness