Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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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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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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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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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.