Francis Bacon Quotes
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By indignities men come to dignities.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
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Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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Lastly, there are Idols which have immigrated into men's minds from the various dogmas of philosophies, and also from wrong laws of demonstration. These I call Idols of the Theater, because in my judgment all the received systems are but so many stage plays, representing worlds of their own creation after an unreal and scenic fashion.
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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.