Quotes
from Francis Bacon - No body can be healthful without exercise
“If
a book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading once.”
―
Francis Bacon
“No
body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic: and
certainly to a kingdom or state, a just and honourable war is the true
exercise.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Whoseoever
is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that
the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than
that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment.”
―
Francis Bacon
“No
one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel
himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the
understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars.
Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and
ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the
childish notions which we at first imbibed.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Doth
any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,
flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like,
but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of
melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“This
communicating of a Man's Selfe to his Frend works two contrarie effects; for it
re-doubleth Joys, and cutteth Griefs in halves.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Atheism
leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation:
all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“I
have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Lie
faces God and shrikns from men”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“it
might be a long trip, so be careful not to wear your shoes out: you might need
them in the afterlife.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Read
not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted...but to
weigh and consider.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Solomon
saith, 'He that considereth the wind, shall not sow, and he that looketh to the
clouds, shall not reap.' A wise man will make more opportunities, than he
finds.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“If
you read a piece of text through twenty times, you will not learn it by heart
so easily as if you read it ten times while attempting to recite from time to
time and consulting the text when your memory fails.”
―
Francis Bacon, The New Organon
“…
for it is very probable, that the motion of gravity worketh weakly, both far
from the earth, and also within the earth: the former because the appetite of
union of dense bodies with the earth, in respect of the distance, is more dull:
the latter, because the body hath in part attained its nature when it is some
depth in the earth.
{Foreshadowing
Isaac Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation (1687)}”
―
Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History in Ten Centuries
“The
punishing of wits enhances their authority.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Once
the human mind has favoured certain views, it pulls everything else into
agreement with and support for them. Should they be outweighed by more powerful
countervailing considerations, it either fails to notice these, or scorns them,
or makes fine distinctions in order to neutralize and so reject them.”
―
Francis Bacon, The New Organon
“We
see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the
monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued
twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter;
during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been
decayed and demolished?”
―
Francis Bacon
