Francis Bacon Quotes
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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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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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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To know truly is to know by causes.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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Always let losers have their words.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.
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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that 'The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.'
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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.