Francis Bacon Quotes
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
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So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.
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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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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
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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. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
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In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, 'The world says,' or 'There is a speech abroad.'
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
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We only have our nervous system to paint.
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.