Quotes
from Francis Bacon - Crafty men condemn studies
“Old
wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to
read.”
―
Francis Bacon
“What
then remains, but that we still should cry
Not
to be born, or being born, to die?”
―
Francis Bacon
“It
Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour”
―
Francis Bacon
“Let
every student of nature take this as a rule,-- that whatever his mind seizes
and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.”
―
Francis Bacon, The New Organon
“Beauty
is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the
most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance;
but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices
blush.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Crafty
men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they
teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won
by observation.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Discern
of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age
will not be defied.”
―
Francis Bacon, Of Empire
“The
monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or
of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred
years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time
infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”
―
Francis Bacon
“It
was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a
temple a picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped shipwreck,
and would have him say whether he did not now acknowledge the power of the
gods, — ‘Aye,’ asked he again, ‘but where are they painted that were drowned
after their vows?’ And such is the way of all superstition, whether in
astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a
delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where
they fail, though this happens much oftener, neglect and pass them by.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Aristippus
said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy,
were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
“We
gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our
hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the
deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the beginning He discovered
the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so He would now discover land
to us, that we might not perish.”
―
Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
“For
all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of
pleasure in itself.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
“All
rising to a great place is by a winding stair.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Worthy
books are not companions - they are solitudes: we lose ourselves in them and
all our cares”
―
Francis Bacon
“A
small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic
Hercules.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Virtue
is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“There
is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and
perfidious.”
―
Frances Bacon
