Francis Bacon Quotes

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Wonder is the seed of knowledge” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”― Francis Bacon Quote

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“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” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”― Francis Bacon Quote

“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.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Revenge is a king of wild justice.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“For the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem. ” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other”― Francis Bacon Quote

“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.”― Francis Bacon Quote

“I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. ” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake…” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”― Francis Bacon Quote

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Silence is the virtue of fools.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“It is impossible to love and be wise.” ― Francis Bacon Quote

“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” ― Francis Bacon Quote