Nature Quotes by Francis Bacon

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

— Francis Bacon

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

— Francis Bacon

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

— Francis Bacon

It is natural to die as to be born.

— Francis Bacon

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

— Francis Bacon

Art is man added to Nature.

— Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

— Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

— Francis Bacon

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

— Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

— Francis Bacon

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

— Francis Bacon

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

— Francis Bacon

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

— Francis Bacon

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

— Francis Bacon

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

— Francis Bacon

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

— Francis Bacon

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than…

— Francis Bacon

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or…

— Francis Bacon

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

— Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it…

— Francis Bacon

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

— Francis Bacon

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but…

— Francis Bacon

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some…

— Francis Bacon

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon…

— Francis Bacon

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with…

— Francis Bacon

“He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will…

— Francis Bacon

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common…

— Francis Bacon

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win…

— Francis Bacon

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than…

— Francis Bacon

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is…

— Francis Bacon

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to…

— Francis Bacon

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable,…

— Francis Bacon

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

— Francis Bacon

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

— Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

— Francis Bacon

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

— Francis Bacon