Francis Bacon Quotes

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Best

• I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Like
  • Him
  • Smoke

• I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Why
  • Picture
  • Walking

• The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Rights
  • Second

• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Years
  • Hero
  • Many

• It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • World
  • Men
  • Short

• I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Tough

• 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Justice
  • Fight
  • Strength

• I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Change

• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Small
  • Church

• The worst is feeling worthless.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Worst

• He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Live
  • Money
  • Food

• Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Serious
  • English
  • Humor

• If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Public

• The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Change
  • Yourself
  • Size

• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Feeling
  • Idea
  • Birth

• This is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and spirit power. God spoke it. God transmitted that image to Mary. She received the image inside of her. .. the embryo that was in Mary's womb was nothing more than the Word of God. .. She conceived the Word of God.

  

  Charles Capps
  • Understanding
  • Spirit
  • Birth

• Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Birth
  • Conclusions
  • Discoveries