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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 10

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Old Time, Reverence, Scorn

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

Inspirational, Greatness, Thinking

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Men, Society, Debtors

'The Elements of the Common Law' (1596) preface

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Science, Mind, Handicrafts

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Men, Stupidity, Fortune

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.472

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

Strength, Armor, Fortitude

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Science, Power, Wit

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1841). “The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England”, p.534

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Absurdity, Boldness

Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.362, Oxford University Press, USA

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

Science, Son, Winning

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Beauty, Infinite, Sensible

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

Art, Attitude, People

Hugh Marlais Davies, Francis Bacon (2001). “Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953”, Museum of Contemporary Art San

Friends are thieves of time.

Friendship, Thieves

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.349

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Apes, Habit, Ifs

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Memories, Men, Roots

Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.70

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Fool, Fortune, Darling

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1857). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.128

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Writing, Dust, Water

'The World' (1629)

States are great engines moving slowly.

Moving, Government, States

"Advancement of Learning" (Book II), as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Knowledge, Science, Order

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.392

Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; 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.

Men, Errors, Two

The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

Real, Passion, Heart

Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Lying, Deceit, Substance

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.538

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Revenge, Men, Green

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

Artist, Long, Want

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

Science, Law, Understanding

Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 4”, p.246

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