Francis Bacon Quotes
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.
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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
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Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
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I believe in deeply ordered chaos.
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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity.
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All bravery stands upon comparisons.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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Knowledge is power.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
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Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.