God loveth the clean. Francis Bacon More Quotes by Francis Bacon More Quotes From Francis Bacon A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon forgiveness anger revenge Half of science is putting forth the right questions. Francis Bacon right-questions half science The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. Francis Bacon wit power science The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon mirrors race men A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Francis Bacon lunch-break cooking-dinner breakfast The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. Francis Bacon worst best-friend friendship God's first creature, which was light. Francis Bacon evolution light firsts I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon time birthday men When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. Francis Bacon funny-friend loss men There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. Francis Bacon concurrence knowledge But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain. Francis Bacon fashion philosophy believe The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. Francis Bacon wealth happiness inspirational The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. Francis Bacon secret science knowledge Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.) Francis Bacon latin education knowledge For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed. Francis Bacon All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. Francis Bacon hue light heart Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Francis Bacon fate fortune men The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays Francis Bacon lasts hypocrisy lying Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed. Francis Bacon powerful running science It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. Francis Bacon power self men