Francis Bacon Quotes
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.
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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
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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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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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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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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
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Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.