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
art magic secret
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
opportunity men
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
dream winter astrology
Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
dream men vanity
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
people loser
Always let losers have their words.
business men degrees
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
men sovereign fame
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
believe men envy
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
inspirational motivational integrity
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
philosophy men order
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men-the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
change secret states
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
book thinking study
Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
reflection virtue praise
Praise is the reflection of virtue.
humanity divinity poor
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.