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
humility mirrors understanding
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.