Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. Francis Bacon More Quotes by Francis Bacon More Quotes From Francis Bacon If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. Francis Bacon sparks fuel fire There is no secrecy comparable to celerity. Francis Bacon secrecy speed Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature. Francis Bacon nature revenge science There is superstition in avoiding superstition. Francis Bacon avoiding superstitions There is no such flatterer as is a man's self. Francis Bacon vanity self men Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Francis Bacon crushed virtue ...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science. Francis Bacon levels discovery science He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's. Francis Bacon envy cases Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. Francis Bacon consistency men looks The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. Francis Bacon succeed judging honor The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed. Francis Bacon foundation mind men But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. Francis Bacon demonstration experiments science It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. Francis Bacon madness science mean The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. Francis Bacon color white sea Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. Francis Bacon body mind men Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. Francis Bacon endeavor men mean Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. Francis Bacon peril pleasure danger He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?. Francis Bacon remedy ends evil Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry. Francis Bacon nobility industry birth There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God. Francis Bacon nature light atheist
