Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon More Quotes by Francis Bacon More Quotes From Francis Bacon Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils Francis Bacon attitudepeopleart Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience. Francis Bacon maturityjourneyspiritual I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck. Francis Bacon luckwanttrying Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Francis Bacon richvirtuestones Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason Francis Bacon returnexercisemen Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. Francis Bacon despairhatebelieve To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. Francis Bacon halloweenentrepreneurpolitical They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Francis Bacon naturelifetravel We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon changing-environmentconservationnature The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. Francis Bacon supportopinionunderstanding Money is a great servant but a bad master. Francis Bacon servantmoneymasters Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly Francis Bacon apeshabitifs Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart. Francis Bacon true-friendfriendshiplying If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks. Francis Bacon winningscienceson Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon questions-and-answers Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon readingmilitaryteacher Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. Francis Bacon learningageyears Reading maketh a full man. Francis Bacon readingmenbook Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener. Francis Bacon vanitydreammen The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Francis Bacon winninglifeart
