The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.
- Francis Bacon
No man is angry that feels not himself hurt.
- Francis Bacon
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
- Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
- Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
- Francis Bacon
Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed.
- Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.
- Francis Bacon
The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and disgested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.
- Francis Bacon
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
- Francis Bacon
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
- Francis Bacon
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
- Francis Bacon
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
- Francis Bacon
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