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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 7

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Patterns, Painting, Canvas

Sir John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (1967). “Bacon”

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

Injury, Wounds

Francis Bacon, Edward Arber (1871). “A Harmony of the Essays: Etc”, p.53

You can't be more horrific than life itself.

Horrific

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Adversity, Blessing, Christian Inspirational

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

Passion, Artist, Despair

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Life, Way

'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 23, sect. 45

Opportunity makes a thief.

Opportunity, Thieves

'A Letter of Advice to the Earl of Essex...' (1598) in J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Letters and Life of Francis Bacon' vol. 2 (1862) p. 99

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Wise, Witty, Philosophy

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Lying, Hypocrisy, Lasts

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Evil, Ends, Remedy

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.335

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Inspirational, Book, Reading

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Men, Vices, Would Be

Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.191

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Friendship, Husband, Father

Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.62

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

Life, Birthday, Age

"The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh".

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

Money, Wealth, Masters

"De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum". Book by Francis Bacon, Book Six, 1623.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Men, Young, Elders

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Humanity, Divinity, Poor

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Science, Math, Men

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Weakness, Lasts, Cords

Francis Bacon (1818). “The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant Sentences, Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and Evil”, p.54

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Passion, Painting, Pleasure

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Men, Doubt, 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.492

By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

Divorce, Knowledge, Mean

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

Real, Faithful, Mind

Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.64, Jazzybee Verlag

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Useless, Logic, Rendering

Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

God's first creature, which was light.

Light, Firsts, Evolution

'New Atlantis' (1627)

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