Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 2

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• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  Francis Bacon

  Motivational, Hope, Wisdom

  J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36

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• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Best Effort

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• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

  Francis Bacon

  Teacher, Military, Reading

  Essays "Of Studies" (1625)

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• People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, People, Want

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• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Curiosity

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

  Francis Bacon

  Lunch Break, Cooking Dinner, Breakfast

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• In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

  Francis Bacon

  Persistence, Fire, Clay

  Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• Always let losers have their words.

  Francis Bacon

  People, Loser

  Francis Bacon (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

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• Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Mind, Mystery

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• When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Self, Bees

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• Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, True Friend, Lying

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• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Photography, Adversity

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• By far the best proof is experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Experience, Belief

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• We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Changing Environment, Conservation

  1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129.

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• The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wealth

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• The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Lame, Judo

  Sir Francis Bacon, “The Interpretation Of Nature And”

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• People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Learning, Thinking

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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Roots, Missing

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• The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

  Francis Bacon

  Choices, Understanding, Statistics

  Francis Bacon (1985). “The Essays”, p.423, Penguin UK

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• I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

  Francis Bacon

  Dark, Decision, Age

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• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Loneliness, Real Friends

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'

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• If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

  Francis Bacon

  Masters, Servant, Ifs

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