Quote

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to 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
Formation
Arises
Arise
Wonderful
Words
Mind
Obstruction

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
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
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
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Francis Bacon
Image
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Francis Bacon
Image
The master of superstition, is the people and in all superstition, wise men follow fools and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
Francis Bacon
Image
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
Francis Bacon
Image
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Francis Bacon
Image
Reading maketh a full man.
Francis Bacon
Image
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon
Image
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
Francis Bacon
Image
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Francis Bacon
Image
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life.
Francis Bacon
Image
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
Image
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon
Image
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
Francis Bacon
Image
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon
Image
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
Francis Bacon
Image
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon
Image
Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
Francis Bacon
Image
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
Francis Bacon