Quotes
Quotes - Bacon
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
I would live to study, and not study to live.
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
It is impossible to love and be wise.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.
Out of sighte, out of mynde.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
