Francis Bacon Quotes
+28Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.
- Francis Bacon
+28Man was formed for society.
- Francis Bacon
+14Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon
+2Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
- Francis Bacon
+1A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
+1The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
- Francis Bacon
+1Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
- Francis Bacon
+1Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Francis Bacon
+1Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
- Francis Bacon
+1Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
- Francis Bacon
+1And he that will not apply New Remedies, must expect New Evils; for Time is the greatest Innovator.
- Francis Bacon
+1Histories make men wise.
- Francis Bacon
+1Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
- Francis Bacon
+1For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
- Francis Bacon
+1And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.
- Francis Bacon
+1For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
- Francis Bacon
+1Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind.
- Francis Bacon
+1The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
- Francis Bacon
+1Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon
+1Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.
- Francis Bacon
+1Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Francis Bacon
+1For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
- Francis Bacon
+1All colors will agree in the dark.
- Francis Bacon
+1If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
- Francis Bacon
+1Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
- Francis Bacon