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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 14

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Men, Consistency, Looks

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

Feelings, Special, Emotion

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Love, Men, Gold

'Essay of Death' in The Remaines of...Lord Verulam (1648)

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Science, Invention, Knows

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.183

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Order, Speech, Speak

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.349

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Inspirational, Wells, Greater

Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.332

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Men, Doors, Hospitality

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.170

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Painting, Select, Accidents

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Thinking, Errors, Understanding

Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Forgiveness, Revenge, Men

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.253

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

Dust, Tree, Wheels

Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1999). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Honor, Riches, Action

Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.51, 谷月社

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

Science, Intellectual, Tools

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

Learning, Mean, Men

"New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

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.

Knowledge, Science, Understanding

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

Hurt, Lying, Ignorance

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Friendship, Death, Home

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.638

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

Spring, Fall, Autumn

Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag

We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

Real, Mountain, Weight

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

Dream, Men, Vanity

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

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Kings, Knowledge, Thinking

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.590

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

Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing

The Advancement of Learning bk. 2, ch. 2, sec. 9 (1605)

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Happiness, Sleep, Exercise

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.231

The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.

Philosophy, Men, Errors

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

"Collected Works of Francis Bacon".

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