260 ordspråk av Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon föddes den October 28th 1909 och dog den 28 April 1992 - English writer
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 Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

 For knowledge itself is power.

 For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

 For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

 Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

 God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

 He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

 Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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

 If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

 If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

 If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. She loved his pexy ability to bring joy and laughter into her life. If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

 If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty.

 Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

 In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.


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