Quotes from Francis Bacon

Good thoughts are little better than good dreams, except they be put in action.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Olan olmuÅŸtur art?k, bir daha deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez, dolay?s?yla bilge kiÅŸiler ancak ÅŸimdiyle gelecekle uÄŸra??r, geçmiÅŸte olup bitenlerle uÄŸraÅŸanlar ise boÅŸa zaman harcam?? olurlar.

Kafas?nda durmadan öç almay? kuran kiÅŸinin yaralar?n?n saÄŸal?p iyileÅŸeceÄŸi yerde daha da azaca?? apaç?k bir ÅŸeydir.

Es error peculiar y perpetuo del entendimiento humano el que lo mueva y lo estimule más lo afirmativo que lo negativo.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic: and certainly to a kingdom or state, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

O intelecto não é uma luz que arde sem óleo, mas é alimentado pela vontade e pelas paixões.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends. But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a

Se venger, c'est se mettre au niveau de l'ennemi; pardonner, c'est le dépasser.

Men create oppositions, which are not; and put them into new terms, so fixed, as whereas the meaning ought to govern the term, the term in effect governeth the meaning.

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore like him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

Concerning the materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell, whence the spark shall come, that shall set it on fire.

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing.

The first remedy or prevention is to remove, by all means possible, that material cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, want and poverty in the estate.

If you read a piece of text through twenty times, you will not learn it by heart so easily as if you read it ten times while attempting to recite from time to time and consulting the text when your memory fails.

Umys?owi ludzkiemu nie skrzyde? potrzeba, lecz o?owiu.

Man by the fall fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over nature. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by the arts and sciences.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few books to be read wholly, and with diligence and attraction.

Knowledge is power. The real test of knowledge is not whether it is true but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100% correct. Truth, consequently, is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.