Francis Bacon Quotes
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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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Always let losers have their words.
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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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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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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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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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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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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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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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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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The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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God's first creature, which was light.