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
friendship men giving
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
strong integrity practice
It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
execution blind danger
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
funny family important
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
revenge grief passion
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
death home ready
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
inspirational children mistake
You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
wiser spaniards seems
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
cat men england
There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
men drug use
Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.
fear mind desire
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
justice ears
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
men vices he-man
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
firsts facts form
An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.