Francis Bacon Quotes
+1A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
+1Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
+1There is no perfect beauty that hath not strangeness in the proportion.
- 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
+1Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Francis Bacon
+1We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
+1Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.
- Francis Bacon
+1I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
- Francis Bacon
+1As the births of living creatures are at first ill shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
+1He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
+1Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
- Francis Bacon
+1A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
- Francis Bacon