Bats Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bats Bird Doubt Philosophy of Mind Suspicion Twilight
As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves, they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky,… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year. Our forests furnish no mast for them.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“It is getting dark. In the low mists over the hills, an orange glow broods, as if the trees are on fire. Bats are… — Tan Twan Eng 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 and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
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
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some… — Ken Griffey, Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become. — Dick Stuart Copy Share Image
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. — Norm Cash Copy Share Image
(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you. — Marv Levy Copy Share Image
