Francis Bacon (artist) Quotes

Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the ru...

man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions b...

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...

Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.

God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, t...

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that w...

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...

Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildi...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but t...

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation thin...

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Time is the greatest innovator.

I would live to study not study to live.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Knowledge is power.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave...

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of ...

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo...

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get y...

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledg...

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old a...

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

Knowledge itself is power

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider...

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but tru...

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active...

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the bir...

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their ...

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed i...

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to d...

Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the ru...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...