Francis Bacon Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Men Quotes

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

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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

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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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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.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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