Francis Bacon
- Country : United Kingdom
- Profession :Actor and Scientist
- DOB: 1561-01-22
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and scientist. He is known as the father of the scientific method and for his contributions to empiricism. Bacon’s “Novum Organum” outlined a systematic approach to acquiring knowledge through observation and experimentation. He held various government positions, including serving as Lord Chancellor of England, but his career ended in scandal. Bacon’s essays remain influential for their insights into human nature. He died in 1626, leaving a lasting legacy as a key figure in the development of modern science and philosophy, advocating for the empirical study of the natural world.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer.
Author: Francis BaconTruth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Author: Francis BaconTravel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Author: Francis BaconThis is certain, that a man that studied revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Author: Francis BaconThings alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Author: Francis BaconThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Author: Francis BaconTherefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Author: Francis BaconThere is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Author: Francis BaconThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Author: Francis BaconThere is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Author: Francis BaconThe root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Author: Francis BaconThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Author: Francis BaconThe way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Author: Francis BaconThere is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Author: Francis BaconI will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Author: Francis BaconIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Author: Francis BaconGod’s first creature, which was light.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Author: Francis BaconHe that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Author: Francis BaconHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Author: Francis BaconHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Author: Francis BaconHouses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Author: Francis BaconIn order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Author: Francis BaconIt is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Author: Francis BaconIt is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Author: Francis BaconIt is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Author: Francis BaconIt is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Author: Francis BaconIt is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Author: Francis BaconBut men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Author: Francis BaconA little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Author: Francis BaconA sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Author: Francis BaconAge appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Author: Francis BaconAntiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Author: Francis BaconAntiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Author: Francis BaconGod Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Author: Francis BaconCertainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Author: Francis BaconChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Author: Francis BaconDiscretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Author: Francis BaconFame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Author: Francis BaconFor my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Author: Francis BaconFortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Author: Francis BaconJudges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Author: Francis BaconAs the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Author: Francis BaconSeek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Author: Francis BaconSmall amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Author: Francis BaconSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Author: Francis BaconThe desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Author: Francis BaconWhen a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Author: Francis Bacon