Francis Bacon Quotes

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Francis Bacon

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• Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Honest
  • Seek
  • Number

• Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Always
  • Decision
  • Evolving

• If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Culture
  • Military

• That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Action

• I like retirement.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Like
  • Retirement

• Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Home
  • Research
  • Waves

• One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • World
  • May
  • Free

• I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Thought
  • Suicide
  • Mission

• People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Control
  • Fall

• People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Person
  • Part

• The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
  • Earth
  • Nationalism
  • Female Body

• What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Humans

• You know, even in the economic downturn in Alberta, there are restaurants in Calgary, and even in Canmore up the mountain, that cannot open for lunch because they cannot find staff. And they cannot find staff because there's nowhere for those people to live. And so safe and decent housing, market housing, subsidized housing, the whole bit, we really, really need to have our heads on straight on this, and we don't yet.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • People
  • Mountain
  • Economic

• I am just one human being.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Human
  • Human being

• It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Die
  • Create
  • Human being

• I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Human being
  • Arbitrary
  • Nearer