Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
men mind foundation
The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
men consistency may
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
evil
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
art practice physicians
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
mind wonderful arise
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
knowledge
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
men dignity indignity
By indignities men come to dignities.
men mind body
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
evil ends remedy
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
men society debt
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
men doubt littles
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
color sea white
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
mean men endeavor
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
pleasure danger peril
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.