Francis Bacon Quotes
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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.
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Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
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The obliteration of the evil hath been practised by two means, some kind of redemption or expiation of that which is past, and an inception or account de novo for the time to come. But this part seemeth sacred and religious, and justly; for all good moral philosophy (as was said) is but a handmaid to religion.
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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.
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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.
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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.
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A good conscience is a continual feast.