Quote

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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
Consistency
Foundation
Virtue

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon
Image
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.
Francis Bacon
Image
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Francis Bacon
Image
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Francis Bacon
Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
Francis Bacon
Image
There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
Francis Bacon
Image
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
Image
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Francis Bacon
Image
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.
Francis Bacon
Image
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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
Image
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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
God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
Image
Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon
Image
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
Francis Bacon
Image
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
Francis Bacon
Image
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
Francis Bacon
Image
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
Image
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Francis Bacon