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
business measure time
Measure not dispatch by the time of sitting, but by the advancement of business
caused curious delight fruitful labour large leave natural rich speak time wander
When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
ancient ask both counsel latter time
Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest
books-and-reading fragments passages private records recover save somewhat time
Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time
time knows ifs
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
time business people
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
old-time reverence scorn
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
time-management management innovators
Time is the greatest innovator.
time artist years
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
time ancient latter
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
time
Time is the author of authors.
daughter mother time
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
birthday time men
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
change time acceptance
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.