Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 11
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”, p.178
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.96
Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.
Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.456
Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.371
Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.287
'De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum' (1640 ed., translated by Gilbert Watts) I, vii, 31
New Atlantis (1627)
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'
Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag
Francis Bacon, Alexander Spiers, Basil Montagu (1858). “The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: and The Wisdom of the Ancients”, p.233
One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.
Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.289
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.
Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.114
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.347
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature'
Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 6”, p.514