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 you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not. Francis Bacon knows time knowledge That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off. Francis Bacon too-much kings son Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices. Francis Bacon drug men science God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. Francis Bacon wire weight god Rebellions of the belly are the worst. Francis Bacon belly rebellion worst Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Francis Bacon truth fiction needs God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon garden nature firsts This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Francis Bacon forgiveness revenge men There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him. Francis Bacon cunning-man cat men Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own. Francis Bacon another-man charity men For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. Francis Bacon foundation doe religion They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new. Francis Bacon old-time scorn reverence The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. Francis Bacon inquiry sovereign love The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Francis Bacon light men believe We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. Francis Bacon action inspirational thinking When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him. Francis Bacon home country travel Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. Francis Bacon grows use men All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness. Francis Bacon crime race earth Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. Francis Bacon chosen wells speech Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon christian-inspirational adversity blessing
