The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which… — 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
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
The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is… — 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
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
...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
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
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
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
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
