Francis Bacon Quotes
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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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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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When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
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For knowledge, too, is itself power.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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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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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.