Francis Bacon

'Francis Bacon' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Bacon, Francis Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Colony

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bacon's Arena

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Astley's Way

  2001, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider

  1994, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Francis Bacon

  1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact

  1987, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Heads

  1969, role: actor

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Famous quotes by Francis Bacon:

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

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."

"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

"Science is but an image of the truth."

"Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested."

"It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians."

"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."

"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."

"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."

"The remedy is worse than the disease."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."