Francis Bacon Quotes
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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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'You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God' This canon is the mother of all canons against heresy; the causes of error are two; the ignorance of the will of God, and the ignorance or not sufficient consideration of his power.
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
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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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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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We only have our nervous system to paint.
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
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The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.
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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
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Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
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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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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.