Quotes
from Francis Bacon -
“Truth
is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error,
lest you get your brains kicked out.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Natural
abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies
themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded
in by experience.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Look
upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor
dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort
nor counsel.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Whosoever
is delighted in Solitude, is either a wild Beast or a God.”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“The
noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have
sought to express the image of their minds, where those of their bodies have
failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that they have no posterity.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Knowledge
itself is power”
―
Francis Bacon
“For
the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the
beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is
rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be
not delivered and reduced.”
―
Francis Bacon, Instauratio Magna. Novum Organum. Nueva Atlántida.
“If
a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be
content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
―
Francis Bacon
“And
yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the
husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons
that he had left unto them gold buried under the ground in his vineyard: and
they digged over the ground, gold they found none, but by reason of their
stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great
vintage the year following: so assuredly the search and stir to make gold hath
brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and
experiments, as well for the disclosing of nature as for the use of man's
life.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“He
that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor
too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and
the second will make him a small proceeder, though often by prevailings.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Nupital
love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth,
and embaseth it.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Mixture
of lie doeth ever add pleasure.”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“It
is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.”
―
Francis Bacon
“A
man would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, only upon a
weariness to do the same thing so oft, over and over.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“If
a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the
world.”
―
Francis Bacon
“It
is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a
pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and adventures
thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth, and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and
tempests, in the vale below.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“...poesy
is the wine of demons...”
―
Francis Bacon
