- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon »
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon »
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon »
- Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Francis Bacon »
- 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 erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. Francis Bacon »
- Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. Francis Bacon »
- Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Francis Bacon »
- By far the best proof is experience. Francis Bacon »
- Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Francis Bacon »
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Francis Bacon »
- Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Francis Bacon »
- Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. Francis Bacon »
- Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. Francis Bacon »
- For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves. Francis Bacon »
- Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Francis Bacon »
- He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. Francis Bacon »
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon »
- Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Francis Bacon »
- Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon »
- Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Francis Bacon »
- I have taken all knowledge to by my province. Francis Bacon »
- I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Francis Bacon »
- 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 »
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. Francis Bacon »
- If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks. Francis Bacon »
- If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. Francis Bacon »
- If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon »
- If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. Francis Bacon »
- 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 »
- In charity there is no excess. Francis Bacon »
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior. Francis Bacon »
- It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. Francis Bacon »
- It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon »
- It is impossible to love and to be wise. Francis Bacon »
- Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon »
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. Francis Bacon »
- Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. Francis Bacon »
- Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. Francis Bacon »
- Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. Francis Bacon »
- Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty. Francis Bacon »
- Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study. Francis Bacon »
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon »
- Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. Francis Bacon »
- No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. Francis Bacon »
- Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise. Francis Bacon »
- Nothing is to be feared but fear. Francis Bacon »
- Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Francis Bacon »
- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon »
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. Francis Bacon »
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. Francis Bacon »
- Silence is the virtue of fools. Francis Bacon »
- Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon »
- 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 »
- The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. Francis Bacon »
- The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. Francis Bacon »
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Francis Bacon »
- The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span. Francis Bacon »
- The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Francis Bacon »
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. Francis Bacon »
- There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. Francis Bacon »
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon »
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Francis Bacon »
- Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. Francis Bacon »
- We cannot command nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon »
- We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. Francis Bacon »
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Francis Bacon »
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