People Quotes by Francis Bacon

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

— Francis Bacon

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

— Francis Bacon

Always let losers have their words.

— Francis Bacon

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and…

— Francis Bacon

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

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

— Francis Bacon

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

— Francis Bacon

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

— Francis Bacon

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

— Francis Bacon

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

— Francis Bacon

Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.…

— Francis Bacon

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing…

— Francis Bacon

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of…

— Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/…

— Francis Bacon

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles…

— Francis Bacon

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in…

— Francis Bacon

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from…

— Francis Bacon

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his…

— Francis Bacon

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such…

— Francis Bacon

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters…

— Francis Bacon

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than…

— Francis Bacon