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“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Wise #Wisdom #Clever
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“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
-- Francis Bacon
#Inspirational #Life #Positive
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“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Wisdom #Educational #Learning
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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Inspirational #Success #Graduation
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“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Life #Success #Time
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“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Life #Beauty #Beautiful
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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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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Inspirational #Book #Reading
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“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Money #Masters #Servant
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“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Birthday #Time #Men
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“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”
-- Francis Bacon
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“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Men #Citizens #World
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“The worst men often give the best advice.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Inspirational #Men #Giving
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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.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Humility #Mirrors #Understanding
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“The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Life #Fall #Angel
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“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Knowledge #Causes #Contemplation
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“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Home #House #Looks
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“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Wise #Peace #Hurt
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“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Power #Men #Self
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“God's first creature, which was light.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Light #Firsts #Evolution
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“Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Ornaments #Delight #Study
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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Happiness #Wisdom #Humility
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“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Law #Judging #Construction
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“It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Life #Way
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“By far the best proof is experience.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Science #Experience #Belief
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“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
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“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
-- Francis Bacon
#True Friend #Believe #Learning
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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.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Happiness #New Beginnings #Loss
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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Motivational #Hope #Wisdom
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“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
-- Francis Bacon
#Nature #Understanding #Subtlety
