Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 3

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• The worst men often give the best advice.

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  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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• Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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  Painting, Interpretation

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• The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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  Understanding, Limits, Universe

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• Science is but an image of the truth.

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  Truth, Science, Scientist

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• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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  Daughter, Mother, Time

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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  Loss, Funny Friend, Men

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• Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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  Money, Littles, Use

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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  Kindness, Kids, Caring

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• If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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  Money, Men, Greed

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• Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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  Education, Latin, Knowledge

  'Meditationes Sacrae' (1597) 'Of Heresies'

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• To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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  Halloween, Entrepreneur, Political

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• He 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.

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  Hands, Giving, Advice

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• They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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  Potatoes, Ancestor, Valuable

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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

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• He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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  Envy, Cases

  Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.22

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• If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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  Justice, Fairness, Criminal Justice

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1844). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author”, p.311

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• In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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  Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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  Fate, Men, Well Known

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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  Life, Change, Philosophical

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• People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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  Funny, People, Devil

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• The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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  Humility, Mirrors, Objectivity

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Worst

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• Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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  Happiness, New Beginnings, Loss

  Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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  Truth, Lying, Inspirational Life

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.511

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• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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  Wise, Peace, Hurt

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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