francis-bacon Quotes About use

Source: Literary and Professional Works

“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.”

Use Study Too Much Judgment Affection Scholar Laziness Ornaments Sloth

Author:Francis Bacon

“Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.”

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.”

Knows Men Use Science Drug Medical Treatment Physicians

Author:Francis Bacon

“Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.”

Real Use Wealth Distribution Conceit Conceited

Author:Francis Bacon

“In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.”

Men I Can Use Pure Mathematics Excellent Reports Statistics Deficiency

Book:The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces

Source: The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces

“The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.”

“There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.”

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Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”

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Book:The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon

Source: The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon

“I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.”

Kind Use Materials Tools Paint All Kinds Peculiar Sweaters Brooms

Author:Francis Bacon

“Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.”

May Use Action Used Cutting Revolution Speech Tools Affair Edges Delight Occasions Penetrate Knots Ornaments Old Things

Book:Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum

Source: Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum

“Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.”

Men Use Society Comfort Protection

Author:Francis Bacon

“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.”

Mind Ends Use Perfect Pleasure Knowledge Fame Benefits Charity Profit Addresses Inferiors Superiority Contention Admonition

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.”

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Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“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.”

Knows Want Use Knowledge Know How Shapes Despair Mark Paint Accurate Portraits

Author:Francis Bacon

“Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.”

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.”

Men Should Writing Use Accounts Anticipation Publishing

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”

Littles Use Money Spread Manure

Author:Francis Bacon

“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”

Looks Use Home House Built Architecture Architect Uniformity

Author:Francis Bacon

“Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”

Men Use Grows Opposition

Author:Francis Bacon

“To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.”