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Danh ngôn của Francis Bacon (Sứ mệnh: 6)

Knowledge is power.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Friends are thieves of time.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
The worst men often give the best advice.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Science is but an image of the truth.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.