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
nature perfect study
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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.
learning men genius
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
hands mistress riches
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
love men gold
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
justice next care
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
order speech speak
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
beautiful love-is tree
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.
time
Time is the author of authors.
marriage children wife
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
technology innovation birth
Innovations, which are the births of time.
atheist real hypocrite
Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
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.
library shrines saint
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.