Francis Bacon Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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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.

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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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