We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Quote by Francis Bacon
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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Francis Bacon Quotes
- Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Friends are thieves of time.
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- The worst men often give the best advice.
- Knowledge is power.
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
- Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Best Quotes
- I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
- You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.