Francis Bacon Quotes
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
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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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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
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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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Friends are thieves of time.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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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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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
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We only have our nervous system to paint.
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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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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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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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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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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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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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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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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.