Francis Bacon People Quotations

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.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him ... when the hill stood still, he was never a wit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him . . . when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Always let losers have their words.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.