Francis Bacon Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Mean, Eye

• The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Eye, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (1854). “The Works of Lord Bacon: Philosophical works”, p.96

• Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

  Francis Bacon

  Distance, Eye, Men

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.456

• Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

  Francis Bacon

  Eye, Green, Grass

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.106, Jazzybee Verlag

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