Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."
143 Quotes
"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."
Francis Bacon
"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
Francis Bacon The Essays
"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"
Francis Bacon
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
Francis Bacon
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator."
Francis Bacon
"Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks."
Francis Bacon
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
Francis Bacon
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
Francis Bacon
"By indignities men come to dignities."
Francis Bacon
"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."
Francis Bacon
"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
Francis Bacon
"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."
Francis Bacon
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
Francis Bacon
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
Francis Bacon
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
Francis Bacon
"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
Francis Bacon
"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
Francis Bacon
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
Francis Bacon
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
Francis Bacon
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Francis Bacon
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