Francis Bacon Quotes, Discovery Quotes

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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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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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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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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