Quotes
from Francis Bacon - Begin doing what you want to do now
“Some
books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and
digested thoroughly.”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“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.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“Hope
is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
―
Francis Bacon
“A
wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Read
not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find
talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some
books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and
some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“There
is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Imagination
was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to
console him for what he is.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Begin
doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this
moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“Man
prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Age
appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends
to trust and old authors to read.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Money
is a great servant but a bad master.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Wonder
is the seed of knowledge”
―
Francis Bacon
“It
is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still
unknown to himself.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
―
Francis Bacon
“In
order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Reading
maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write
little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much
cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”
―
Francis Bacon
“It
is impossible to love and be wise.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Read
not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to
weigh and consider.”
―
Francis Bacon
“In
taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is
superior.”
―
Francis Bacon
“There
are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects
it.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Some
books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read,
but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and
attention.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“If
we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never
before attempted”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and
not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the
other.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
