Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Science Quotes

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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