Francis Bacon Quotes
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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this - that men despair and think things impossible.
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
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Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.
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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
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God loveth the clean.