Francis Bacon Quotes
+30Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.
- Francis Bacon
+28Man was formed for society.
- Francis Bacon
+14Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon
+3A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
+2Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
- Francis Bacon
+2Money is a good servant but a bad master.
- 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
+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
+1We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
+1Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
+1For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist a like.
- Francis Bacon
+1The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.
- Francis Bacon
+1The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon
+1So if a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
- Francis Bacon
+1He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
- Francis Bacon
+1Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
- Francis Bacon
+1Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
- Francis Bacon
+1Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
- Francis Bacon
+1For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
- Francis Bacon
+1They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon
+1Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- Francis Bacon
+1Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
- Francis Bacon
+1Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon
+1To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
- Francis Bacon
