Quotes
from Francis Bacon - People of age object too much
“He
that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are
impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners
resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee
takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden
and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.”
―
Francis Bacon
“This
is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which
otherwise would heal and do well.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the
received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to
support and agree with it.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Books
speak plain when counselors blanch.”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“He
that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are
impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”
―
Francis Bacon
“There
arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the
mind.”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of
medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to
harmony.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“The
human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more
order and regularity in the world than it finds.”
―
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
“People
of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon
and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with
a mediocrity of success.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Great
art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we
know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes
people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down
those veils”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot
of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“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”
―
Francis Bacon
“For
the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call
himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se
fieri meliorem. ”
―
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
“The
virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral, Including also his
Apophthegms, Elegant Sentences and Wisdom of the Ancients
“by
indignities men come to dignities”
―
Francis Bacon
“To
say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a
coward towards men.”
―
Francis Bacon
“It
is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved
and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.”
―
Francis Bacon, The New Organon
