Francis Bacon Quotes, Book Quotes, Two Quotes

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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

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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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In charity there is no excess.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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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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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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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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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

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

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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