Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Albans, was the most important essayist and philosopher during the English Renaissance. The following are some of Bacon’s classic celebrity quotes that I recommend for everyone. Welcome to read and collect them.

A selection of Bacon’s classic life quotes

1. A young man who is advancing according to the law of life should first pay attention to the balance between his talents and desires and his career.

2. I live to learn, but learning is not to live

3. Travel is part of education for young people; it is part of experience for the elderly.

4. We only have inherent laws of health. Few people pay attention to these laws, and they often don't notice them until they are dying, but it is too late to regret. If everyone knew proper fitness methods, it goes without saying that life could be greatly extended.

5. When eating, sleeping, and exercising, having a calm mind and a happy spirit is one of the best secrets to longevity. ---

6. Life is like a road, the shortest way is often the worst way.

7. When reading, you should not deliberately criticize the author, and you should not believe everything in the book. Instead, you should think carefully.

8. Reading makes people enriched, talking makes people agile, and writing and note-taking make people precise.

9. History makes people wise, poetry makes people clever, mathematics makes people precise, natural history makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, logic and rhetoric make people eloquent.

10. Being too quick is one of the biggest dangers in doing things

11. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time

12. People who understand love often Their upward will and enterprising spirit will be strengthened by the sublimation of love.

13. Man is the center of all things and the axis of the world.

14. Knowledge itself does not tell people how to use it. The method of application is outside the book.

15. Knowledge is a kind of happiness, and curiosity is the bud of knowledge.

16. Reading is enough to relax, to learn a lot, and to develop talents.

17. Reading creates fulfilled people, meetings create unenlightened people, and writing creates correct people.

18. Books should be based on science, rather than letting science be based on books.

19. To choose time is to save time. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher) Arranging time reasonably is to save time. ? Bacon's famous sayings

20. The past has long since disappeared, the future is even more unpredictable, only the present is real

21. One more true friend, one more edification The stone of sentiment, one more strength to overcome difficulties, one more partner who is determined to forge ahead.

　22. A false friendship is like your shadow: when you are in the sun, it will follow you closely, but as soon as you go to the dark place, it will immediately leave you.

23. The highest trust between people is the trust of obeying one’s words.

24. Those who are lame but not lost can catch up with those who are walking fast but go astray

25. Honor is like a river: frivolous and empty honors float on the river, students and thick honor sank to the bottom of the river.

26. The safety of the people should be the supreme law

27. Suspicions in the mind are like bats among birds, they always fly in the dusk

28. People with high moral character will have less chance of being envied by others as their virtue increases.

29. The beauty of appearance is better than the beauty of color, and the beauty of appropriate and elegant behavior is better than the beauty of appearance. The best of beauty is what cannot be expressed in pictures, what cannot be seen at first glance.

Lucky timing is like a transaction in the market. As long as you delay it a little bit, it will drop in price.

Selected 2 of Bacon’s classic life quotes

1. Money is a good servant, but it can also become a bad master on certain occasions.

2. The virtue of good times is temperance, and the virtue of adversity is perseverance. The latter is the greater virtue.

3. Who can suffer more than this kind of people, who, although they are still alive, have personally participated in the funeral of their own reputation?

4. History makes people wise, poetry makes people wise. Mathematics makes people noble, natural philosophy makes people deep, morality makes people steady, and ethics and rhetoric make people good at argument.

5. Although human nature is hidden, it is difficult to suppress, and rarely can it be completely eradicated.

Even if you forcefully suppress it, it will only become more violent after the pressure is removed. Only long-term habits can change a person's natural temperament and character to some extent.

6. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time.

7. Habit is really a tenacious and huge force that can dominate a person's life. Therefore, people should develop a good habit through education from an early age.

8. Time is the criterion for measuring career.

9. Paying too much attention to behavioral rules and rigid formalities leads to missed opportunities in career, and the losses will be great.

10. People who have no regrets about burning down a house just to boil eggs for themselves are extreme egoists.

11. Sternness arouses fear, but rudeness breeds hatred. Even if it is a public condemnation, it should be solemn and should not be insulted or ridiculed

12. Miracles that transcend nature are always in the face of others. Appeared in Doom's Conquest.

13. I hope it is a good breakfast, but it is a terrible dinner.

14. Not all beautiful people have other talents. Therefore, many people with good looks do nothing. They pursue external beauty too much and give up inner beauty.

15. The supreme part of beauty cannot be described with colored pens.

16. If beauty is born in a person with high moral character, it will certainly be very glorious; in front of it, a person with bad moral character will feel ashamed and stay away from it.

17. The beauty of appearance is higher than the beauty of color, and the beauty of elegant and appropriate movements is higher than the beauty of appearance. This is the essence of beauty.

18. Hypocritical people are despised by wise men, admired by fools, worshiped by flatterers, and enslaved by their own vanity.

19. Cunning is an insidious and evil intelligence.

20. The fooling of the senses is a kind of pleasure of the senses.

21. Young people are more suitable for invention, but not for judgment; for execution, but not for consultation; for new plans, not for fixed careers.

22. If a person is kind and polite to strangers, he must be a sincere and compassionate good person. His heart is often connected with other people's hearts rather than isolated. .

23. Sympathy is the highest virtue among all morals.

24. Unvirtuous people are often jealous of the virtues of others. (Famous Quotes)

　25. Put on sunglasses, and the world will immediately lose its luster before your eyes. Personal misfortunes are often the dark glasses through which the vulnerable view life.

26. The opportunity of luck is like the market. If there is a slight delay, the price will change.

27. Unexpected luck can make people reckless and arrogant, but tempered luck can make people become great weapons.

28. Vain people are despised by wise men, admired by patients, worshiped by flatterers, and are enslaved by their own vanity.

29. Jealousy is a wandering passion that wanders on the streets and refuses to stay at home. The so-called "There is no one who is nosy and does not have malicious intentions."

30. People who do not get friendship will be miserable lonely people for life. A society without friendship is just a prosperous desert.