Francis Bacon Quotes
1561–1626 England
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman and essayist.
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Also known as: Bacon, Francis, Lord Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.
Novum Organum (1620)
It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
Novum Organum (1620)
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned * * * either upon an art, or upon a man.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
Apophthegms (1624)
Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
Apophthegms (1624)
Radical errors in the first concoction of the mind are not to be cured by the excellence of functions and remedies subsequent.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Money is like muck (manure), not good except it be spread.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.