Francis Bacon Quotes
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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.
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Truth is a naked and open daylight.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
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The great atheists, indeed are hypocrites; which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end.
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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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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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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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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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In the same manner as we are cautioned by religion to show our faith by our works we may very properly apply the principle to philosophy, and judge of it by its works; accounting that to be futile which is unproductive, and still more so, if instead of grapes and olives it yield but the thistle and thorns of dispute and contention.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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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.