Francis Bacon Quotes

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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• I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Heart

• I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Ambition
  • Shakespeare

• For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Want
  • Style
  • Religion

• I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • Intelligent
  • Fade

• In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Art
  • Science

• Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Women
  • Fall

• If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Vulnerability
  • Authenticity

• We abstained from having sex until we got married.

  

  Ali Landry
  • Sex

• Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

  

  Bill Hader

• I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic

• I feel like if it's a good song on a guitar, it's a good song no matter what.

  

  Astrid S
  • Good
  • Song

• You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • People

• I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

  

  China Mieville
  • Job

• I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete.

  

  Kyle Shewfelt
  • Athlete

• There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Harming
  • Hesitant

• Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Money
  • Demand
  • Gospel

• The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Done
  • Christian
  • Eye

• 'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Say
  • Wise Men

• So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

  

  Plutarch
  • Friend
  • Affection
  • Testing

• There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wise Men
  • Secret Hearts
  • Countenances