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
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented. — 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
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but… — 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
“I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human… — 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
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
