Francis Bacon Quotes

…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…

Francis Bacon

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Support
  • Die
  • Grow

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Her

• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Face
  • Status Quo

• In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Faith
  • Identity

• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Problem
  • Champagne
  • Both

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • School
  • Religious
  • Years

• It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Daughter
  • Difficult
  • Ugly

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • She
  • Mad

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Band

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Successful
  • Look

• Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Death
  • Justice
  • Winning

• I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Together

• Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Study

• …it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Understanding