The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well… — 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
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — 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
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if… — 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
