Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Philosophers -- Francis Bacon
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Quotes by Francis Bacon 4
Francis Bacon, 1561-1626. First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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