Francis Bacon Quotes, Pain Quotes, Men Quotes

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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