Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
