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
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of… — 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
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
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. — 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
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little,… — 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
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.… — 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
Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech… — 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
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
