Francis Bacon Quotes

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

Francis Bacon

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• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Fame

• There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • People
  • Never
  • Forgive

• For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I am confounded by the failure of this rule to meet either the spirit or letter of the law, ... It is clearly delinquent in protecting all Americans equally from the hazards of mercury.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Law
  • Failure
  • Spirit

• You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Baseball
  • Butterfly
  • Bee

• The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Power

• He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • World
  • Wanted
  • Delivery

• Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Sacrifice
  • Disappointment

• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

• Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Lucky
  • Charm
  • Lucky Charms

• There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.

  

  Gabrielle Hamilton
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Song

• A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Sport
  • Spoil
  • Inquisitor

• The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Heart
  • Stop
  • Dance

• I'd have to say Sunset Salsa. Nothing against Honey Lime, but it's for losers.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Sunset
  • Honey
  • Loser

• The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Philosophy
  • Concept

• ...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Consequence
  • Invention
  • Experiments