Quote

To spend too much time in studies is sloth to use them too much for ornament is affection to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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
Spend
Sloth
Humor
Laziness
Study
Wholly
Use
Studies
Much
Scholar
Make
Affection
Time
Rules
Ornament
Judgment
Ornaments

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
Image
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon
Image
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
Image
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon
Image
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.
Francis Bacon
Image
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Image
Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
Francis Bacon
Image
Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
Francis Bacon
Image
I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
Francis Bacon
Image
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
Francis Bacon
Image
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.
Francis Bacon
Image
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon
Image
Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.
Francis Bacon
Image
As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
Francis Bacon
Image
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
Francis Bacon
Image
God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
Image
Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
Francis Bacon
Image
Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
Francis Bacon
Image
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
Image
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon