Francis Bacon Quotes

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.

Francis Bacon

Quotes to Explore

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Oswald Chambers
- God
- Never Been
There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

Andrew Cuomo
- People
- Different
- Player
Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

Antonio Damasio
- Life
- Opportunity
- Purpose
To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.

Eliot Spitzer
- People
- Survive
- GOP
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

W. Somerset Maugham
Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

Jack Roy
- Time
- Remember
- Guy