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
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.
attitude thyself
Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
friendship thieves
Friends are thieves of time.
loss hands years
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
kings knowledge thinking
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.