Francis Bacon Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  "Collected Works of Francis Bacon".

• The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

  Francis Bacon

  Weakness, Lasts, Cords

  Francis Bacon (1818). “The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant Sentences, Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and Evil”, p.54

• Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Anger, Men

  Francis Bacon (1850). “Works”, p.306

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