Inspiration Quote by Francis Bacon — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

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

“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. 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.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.”

“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”

“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”