Francis Bacon Quotes
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.
