Francis Bacon Quotes
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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Whatever you can, count.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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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 French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
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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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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.