Francis Bacon Quotes
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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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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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
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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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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.
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Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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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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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
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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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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.