If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,… — 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
We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the… — 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
The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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 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
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his… — 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
