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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 21

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

Circles, Medicine, Disease

"Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis".

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

Anticipation, Terrible

De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum bk. 2 (1623) See Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

Regret, Paint, Starting

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Mistake, Men, Errors

Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.98, Jazzybee Verlag

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

Church, Guarantees, Literature

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Money, Advice, Proud

Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.460

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Moving, Science, Men

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1854). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.11

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Plato, Imagination, Remembrance

Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.168, Courier Corporation

I would live to study, not study to live.

Study

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Pride, Cleanliness

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Dog, Men, Generosity

Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.30, 谷月社

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Dragons, Want, Serpent

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Art, Nature, Freedom

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.82, Hackett Publishing

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Rewards, Noblemen, Cleanliness

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Reading, Writing, Men

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Evil, Body, Causes

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.329

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Opportunity, Men

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.107

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Men, Doubt, Wit

Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.364

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

Science, Imagination, Understanding

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Children, Wife, Virtue

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Hands, Mistress, Riches

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

Inspirational, Thinking, Action

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

Children, Anger, Men

Francis Bacon (1850). “Works”, p.306

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Art, Magic, Secret

"The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z". Book by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, p. 376, 1979.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Learning, Belief, Judgment

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.18

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