Francis Bacon Quotes
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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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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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.
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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.
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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
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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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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.
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It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, 'It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.'
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities, and secret seeds of diseases. Therefore measure not dispatch, by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of the business.
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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
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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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For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.
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Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.