Francis Bacon Quotes, Garden Quotes, Essentials Quotes

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Garden Quotes , Essentials Quotes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Success Quotes

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Death Quotes , Fear Quotes

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Country Quotes , School Quotes

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Superstitions Quotes

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Artist Quotes , Museums Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Children Quotes

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Injury Quotes

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Love Quotes , Hyperbole Quotes

States are great engines moving slowly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Moving Quotes , Government Quotes

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Age Quotes , Plot Quotes

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Science Quotes , Intellectual Quotes

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Principles Quotes

First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Men Quotes

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Vices Quotes

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Funny Quotes , People Quotes

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Wells Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Artist Quotes , Long Quotes

Opportunity makes a thief.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Truth is a naked and open daylight

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Truth Quotes , Naked Quotes