There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is… — 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
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their… — 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
