There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

—Francis Bacon

About Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy, guided by the scientific method, and his works...

More quotations from Francis Bacon

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

—Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

—Francis Bacon

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

—Francis Bacon

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing—that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

—Francis Bacon

By far the best proof is experience.

—Francis Bacon

More quotations tagged with “society”

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

—Robertson Davies

Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.

—Robert Frost

The needs of society determine its ethics.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

—John Stuart Mill

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