Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 9

All Quotes Accidents Adversity Affection Age Anger Appearance Art Atheism Atheist Authority Beauty Belief Birth Business Change Character Charity Children Choices Cleanliness Communication Conflict Confusion Contentment Death Deception Desire Dignity Doubt Dying Earth Education Elders Envy Evil Exercise Experience Fame Family Fashion Fate Fear Feelings Forgiveness Friendship Funny Genius Giving Goodness Grief Growth Happiness Heart History Home Honor Hope Human Nature Humanity Hurt Ignorance Imagination Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Integrity Judging Judgment Justice Knowledge Language Learning Liberty Life Logic Loss Love Luck Lying Mankind Marriage Math Memories Money Monument Motivational Nature Opportunity Painting Passion Peace Perfection Philosophy Photography Pleasure Power Praise Progress Prosperity Reading Religion Revenge Revolution Running Science Society Solitude Son Soul Spirituality Strength Study Success Time Travel Truth Understanding Universe Victory Virtue War Water Weakness Wealth Wife Wisdom Wit Writing

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

Knowledge, Giving, Contentment

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

Knowledge, Accomplishment, Age

Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.532, Cambridge University Press

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Confidence, Responsibility, Men

Francis Bacon (1819). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.350

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

Moving, Science, Dragons

Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

Dream, Astrology, Events

Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Speech, Wells, Chosen

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

Fashion, Truth, Discovery

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Revenge, Justice, Classic

Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Love, Inquiry, Sovereign

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Voice, People, Together

"Francis Bacon, 9. Laus, Existimatio". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 647-649, 1922.

Reading maketh a full man.

Book, Reading, Men

Essays "Of Studies" (1625)

But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

Book, Fall, Errors

"'Hand of God'? Just Ask Sir Isaac Newton" by Jerry Newcombe, www.christianpost.com. January 17, 2014.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

Men, Riches

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.351

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

Anticipation, Affection, Beneficial

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1844). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author”, p.495

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Money, Men, Ends

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.456

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

Nature, Eye, Understanding

Francis Bacon (1854). “The Works of Lord Bacon: Philosophical works”, p.96

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Travel, School, Journey

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Children, Parent, Wish

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Men, Looks, Blind

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Fortune'

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Change, Matter, Certain

'Cogitationes de Natura Rerum' Cogitatio 5 in J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 3 (1857) p. 22 (Latin) and vol. 5 (1858) p. 426 (English translation)

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

Philosophy, Men, Mind

1625 Essays, no.9 'Of Atheism'. See Berkeley 79:7.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Light, Rivers, Fame

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Praise'

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Lying, Men, Vices

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.13

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Nature, Perfect, Study

You May Also Like: