Francis Bacon Quotes

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends but he joyeth the more and no man that impa...

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because ...

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o...

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to ...

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

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

Time is the author of authors.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...

by indignities men come to dignities

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trus...

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.

Riches are for spending.

Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with d...

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

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need ...

A man dies as often as he loses his friends.

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

Time is the author of authors.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo...

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get y...

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledg...

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old a...

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

Knowledge itself is power

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider...

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but tru...

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active...

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the bir...

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their ...

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

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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

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

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

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

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

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to d...

Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the ru...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and f...

Friends are thieves of time.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...