Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Science Quotes

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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