Quote

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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
Tact
Discretion
Eloquence
Speech
Inspiration

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it and accordingly bend their wits.
Francis Bacon
Image
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
Francis Bacon
Image
Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon
Image
If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
Francis Bacon
Image
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
Francis Bacon
Image
It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Francis Bacon
Image
Great changes are easier than small ones.
Francis Bacon
Image
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Francis Bacon
Image
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Francis Bacon
Image
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
Image
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`s plates.
Francis Bacon
Image
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
Francis Bacon
Image
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
Francis Bacon
Image
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon
Image
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.
Francis Bacon
Image
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis Bacon
Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.
Francis Bacon