Francis Bacon Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Men Quotes

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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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.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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