Francis Bacon Quotes

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

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

~ Francis Bacon

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

~ Francis Bacon

It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped shipwreck, and would have him say whether he did not now acknowledge the power of the gods, — ‘Aye,’ asked he again, ‘but where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?’ And such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happens much oftener, neglect and pass them by.

~ Francis Bacon

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.

~ Francis Bacon

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

~ Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

~ Francis Bacon

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

~ Francis Bacon

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

~ Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

~ Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

~ Francis Bacon

If 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

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

~ Francis Bacon

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

~ 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

Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.

~ Francis Bacon

Time is the greatest innovator.

~ Francis Bacon

Time is the author of authors.

~ Francis Bacon

Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.

~ Francis Bacon

I would live to study not study to live.

~ Francis Bacon

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.

~ Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

~ Francis Bacon

The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

~ Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

~ Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

~ Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

~ Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

~ Francis Bacon

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

~ Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

~ Francis Bacon

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

~ Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

~ Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

~ Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

~ Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

~ Francis Bacon

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

~ Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

~ Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

~ Francis Bacon

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

~ Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.

~ Francis Bacon

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

~ Francis Bacon