Francis Bacon Quotes
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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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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Reading maketh a full man.
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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.
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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know.
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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
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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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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
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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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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.