Francis Bacon Quotes
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
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To know truly is to know by causes.
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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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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
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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 superstition in avoiding superstition.
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Always let losers have their words.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.