Quotes
from Francis Bacon - The folly of one man is the fortune of another
“Despise
no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this
beyond the rules of physic. A man’s observation, what he finds good and of what
he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
folly of one man is the fortune of another.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“He
of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.”
―
Francis Bacon
“God
has two textbooks - Scripture and Creation - we would do well to listen to
both.”
―
Francis Bacon
“For
better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to
engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.”
―
Francis Bacon, Complete Works of Francis Bacon
“The
inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge
of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the
enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.”
―
Francis Bacon
“So
if any man think philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not
consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied. And this I take to be a great cause that hath
hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have
been studied but in passage. ”
―
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
“The
images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of
time and capable of perpetual renovation.”
―
Bacon, Francis
“The
true atheist is he whose hands are cauterized by holy things.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Salomon
saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an
imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his
sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Where
a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the
stage.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“The
creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly
creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when
everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and
unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the
physical act of love.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge
of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the
enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.”
―
Francis Bacon
“For
better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to
engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.”
―
Francis Bacon, Complete Works of Francis Bacon
“God
has two textbooks - Scripture and Creation - we would do well to listen to
both.”
―
Francis Bacon
“He
of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Aristotle...
a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”
―
Francis Bacon
“Studies
serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight
is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability,
is in the judgement and execution of business.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
