Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. Francis Bacon More Quotes by Francis Bacon More Quotes From Francis Bacon By indignities men come to dignities. Francis Bacon indignitydignitymen It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less. Francis Bacon partyshapesmen A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. Francis Bacon inspiringmentravel The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected. Francis Bacon essentialsknowingknowledge The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction. Francis Bacon confusedrootslying If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently. Francis Bacon paintingreturnlooks The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success. Francis Bacon natureviewsscience When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others. Francis Bacon selfbeesmen Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. Francis Bacon familyimportantfunny Books will speak plain when counselors blanch. Francis Bacon counselorspeakbook No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out. Francis Bacon artisttimeyears There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. Francis Bacon selfbest-friendmen It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment Francis Bacon motivationalmenhistory All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free. Francis Bacon artistwantlong The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one. Francis Bacon lamejudomen The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. Francis Bacon sunletting-godirty Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. Francis Bacon prosperityadversityvices There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. Francis Bacon autumnspringfall The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand. Francis Bacon natureflowerair When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. Francis Bacon spiritualworldchrist
