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
christian anger wrath
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
thinking action speak
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
believe men light
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
inquiry sovereign belief
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
husband father son
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
lying hypocrisy lasts
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
friendship true-friend lying
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart....
photography jesus light
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.
friendship world littles
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
men world bubbles
The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.
time-management management innovators
Time is the greatest innovator.
knowledge differences body
Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.
business home men
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
thinking chance painter
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.