Francis Bacon Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

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

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

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