It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. Francis Bacon More Quotes by Francis Bacon More Quotes From Francis Bacon States are great engines moving slowly. Francis Bacon government states moving Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. Francis Bacon astrology dream winter Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited. Francis Bacon doctors strong science Money is like muck, not good unless spread. Francis Bacon change-your-attitude spread money I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility. Francis Bacon passion artist feelings But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men. Francis Bacon men science knowledge Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Francis Bacon atheism science book Wounds cannot be cured without searching. Francis Bacon wounds injury Riches are for spending. Francis Bacon riches money funny Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. Francis Bacon customs principles men Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. Francis Bacon money wise wings A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green. Francis Bacon green revenge men Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go. Francis Bacon parent wish children The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs. Francis Bacon light advice men Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. Francis Bacon speech liberty men It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active. Francis Bacon new-work discovery science But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation. Francis Bacon understanding sight science It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. Francis Bacon states change secret There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. Francis Bacon doubt littles men Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. Francis Bacon conceited real use
