Francis Bacon Quotes

654 quotes · Philosopher, Statesman

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Francis Bacon Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Grateful Spiritual 654 quotes · page 28 of 50

Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

Philosophical

“It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment”

Men Motivational History

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

Philosophical

“But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.”

Men Book Renovation

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Philosophical

“He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.”

Pride Cleanliness

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Courageous

“Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.”

Sticks Calumny

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Philosophical

“Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.”

Men Principles

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Philosophical

“I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.”

Art Painting Painter

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Philosophical

“It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.”

Mean Science Circles

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Grateful

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”

Library Saint Shrines

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Philosophical

“For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.”

Men Evil Wisdom

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Creative

“Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.”

Long Brain Communication

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Wise

“Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.”

Men Believe Strength

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Grateful

“God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.”

Men Garden Perfection

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