Francis Bacon Quotes
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Francis Bacon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.
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.
There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.
Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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.
Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.