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 The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Francis Bacon angel knowledge fall People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. Francis Bacon devil funny people The folly of one man is the fortune of another. Francis Bacon stupidity fortune men For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. Francis Bacon names men memories I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. Francis Bacon debtors occupation men A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. Francis Bacon odor flower names I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. Francis Bacon fear believe death It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. Francis Bacon moral fierce politics The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. Francis Bacon skills creative culture Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. Francis Bacon boldness absurdity Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Francis Bacon mind men history Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know. Francis Bacon artist museums years 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 than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions. Francis Bacon support sacrifice understanding Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. Francis Bacon Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. Francis Bacon I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Francis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Francis Bacon Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty. Francis Bacon A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon
