Francis Bacon Quotes
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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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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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
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Knowledge is power.
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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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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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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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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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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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.