Francis Bacon Quotes, Father Quotes, Men Quotes

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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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.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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