Francis Bacon Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Perfect, Mind

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Fire, May, Fame

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.627

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

  Francis Bacon

  Business, Men, Sovereign

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Great Place'

• Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Envy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  Francis Bacon

  Light, Rivers, Fame

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Praise'

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