Francis Bacon Quotes
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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
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Friends are thieves of time.
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.
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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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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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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.
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We only have our nervous system to paint.
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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.