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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 5

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Truth, Failure, Frustration

Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.336

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

War, Armor, Strategy

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Variety Is The Spice Of Life, Pleasant, Variety

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

Advice, Ought

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.295

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Business, Men, Looks

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.369

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Men, Littles, Suspicion

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Suspicion'

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Character, Men, Mind

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.462

Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

Giving, Treasure, Increase

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Nature, Science, Doubt

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Wise, Money, Wings

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.352

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

Cat, Shore, Ifs

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

Spiritual, Maturity, Journey

Time is the author of authors.

Time

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

God, Exercise, Intelligent

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Funny, People, Devil

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Men, Light, Advice

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Virtue, Crushed

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.516

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

Beautiful, Love Is, Tree

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Friendship, Forgiveness, Forgiving

Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.154

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Life, Angel, Men

'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Inspiration, Speech, Tact

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1871). “A harmony of the essays, etc. of Francis Bacon”, p.21

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Life, Fall, Angel

Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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

Increase, Visiting

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

Luck, Trying, Want

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