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
discovery judgment
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
war victory sides
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."
death cry should
What then remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?
inspirational men vocation
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
forever amber fossils
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
cutting old-things ornaments
Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.
book names stories
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
smell yield air
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
men society use
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
lying men faces
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
mind firsts clarity
First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.
powerful ideas issues
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
wisdom
The wisdom of the ancients.
love hyperbole perpetual
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.