Quotes
from Francis Bacon - God has, in fact, written two books, not just one
“Champagne
for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”
―
Francis Bacon
“Philosophy
when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels
it.”
―
Francis Bacon
“God
has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar
with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second
book called creation.”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“There
is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is
lost by not trying.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Reading
maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it
misses.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Truth
is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
―
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
“Histories
make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep;
moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
“They
are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but
sea.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Write
down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the
most valuable.”
―
Francis Bacon
“the
serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”
―
bacon
“The
only really interesting thing is
what
happens between two people in a room.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Great
boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Whosoever
is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Nature
cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.”
―
Francis Bacon
“A
little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy
bringeth men's minds about to religion”
―
Francis Bacon
“A
prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
―
Francis Bacon
“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.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Money
is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“The
remedy is worse than the disease.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Some
books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“He
that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the
greatest innovator.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Silence
is the virtue of fools.”
―
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.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“A
man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. ”
―
Francis Bacon
“By
far the best proof is experience.”
―
Francis Bacon
“He
that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and
example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example,
builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”
―
Francis Bacon
