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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 6

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Heart, Light, Hue

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Men, Envy, Affection

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.522

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

Ideas, Photograph, Triggers

David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

Talking, Justice, Judging

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Hate, Believe, Despair

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

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Men, Brave, Coward

Francis Bacon (2015). “Essays”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Truth, Science, Errors

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Love, Wise, Wisdom

Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.39

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Hate, Neighbor

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

Knowledge, Science, Tree

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.90, Modern Library

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Men, Accord, Profession

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Believe, Book, Attention

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

Philosophy, Men, Order

"Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Order, Understanding, World

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Marriage, Men, Years

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Conscience

Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.165

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

Motivational, Hands, Mold

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Grace, Letters, Figures

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

Slides, Daydreaming, Succession

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Men, Experience, Unexpected

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.542

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Revenge'

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Adversity, Vices, Odor

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

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

War, Adversity, Conflict

1625 Essays, no.5,'Of Adversity'.

Great changes are easier than small ones.

Change, Easier, Great Change

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Truth, Honesty, Answers

Essays "Of Truth" (1625). The Biblical reference is to John 18:38.

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