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
money wealth masters
Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
talking justice judging
A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
men self arches
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
mistake men errors
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
men light advice
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
garden water frogs
For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.
halloween suffering limits
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
inspiring travel men
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
true-friend book looks
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
lying light doe
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
men mirrors race
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And 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.
book speak counselor
Books speak plain when counselors blanch.
philosophy book men
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.
philosophy doubt overcoming-doubt
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.