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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people
By Francis Bacon
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
By Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Humor
By Francis Bacon
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
By Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
By Francis Bacon
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
By Francis Bacon
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
By Francis Bacon
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.
By Francis Bacon
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
By Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
By Francis Bacon
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
By Francis Bacon
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
By Francis Bacon
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
By Francis Bacon
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
By Francis Bacon
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
By Francis Bacon
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
By Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
By Francis Bacon
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Death
By Francis Bacon
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
By Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. Change
By Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Change
By Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
By Francis Bacon