Quote

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Francis Bacon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
Francis
Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
Mysteries
Mystery
Science
Mind
Narrowness
Contracted
Enlarged
Grandeur

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Francis Bacon
Image
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
Francis Bacon
Image
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon
Image
Much bending breaks the bow much unbending the mind.
Francis Bacon
Image
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
Image
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
Francis Bacon
Image
Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
Francis Bacon
Image
If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Francis Bacon
Image
But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.
Francis Bacon
Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon
Image
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
Francis Bacon
Image
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
Francis Bacon
Image
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
Image
By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon
Image
In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
Francis Bacon
Image
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.
Francis Bacon
Image
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon
Image
Reading maketh a full man and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
Francis Bacon
Image
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
Francis Bacon