Francis Bacon
Found 25 thoughts of Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
Francis Bacon
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.
Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
