Francis Bacon Quotes about Giving

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The worst men often give the best advice.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Francis Bacon

Inspirational, Men, Giving

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Francis Bacon

Hands, Giving, Advice

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

Francis Bacon

Giving, Treasure, Increase

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Francis Bacon

Green Plants, Giving, Needs

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.579

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.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge, Giving, Contentment

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Francis Bacon

Friendship, Men, Giving

Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

Francis Bacon

Science, Hands, Giving

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

Francis Bacon

Science, Light, Giving

Francis Bacon (1857). “Works of Francis Bacon: 3”, p.363

Francis Bacon Quotes about Giving

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