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Francis Bacon

Birthday: January 21, 1561
Deathday: April 09, 1626
Category: English Philosopher
Type: Philosopher
National: English

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch,...

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth...

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find...

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green....

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom....

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise...

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds....

Acorns were good until bread was found....

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood...

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor....

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which...

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen,...

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite....

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's...

By indignities men come to dignities....

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the...

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter....

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will...

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak...

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light...

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living...

For also knowledge itself is power....

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the...

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you...

Friends are thieves of time....

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

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is...

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires....

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the...

God's first creature, which was light....

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you...

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he...

He that hath knowledge spareth his words....

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...

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

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

Houses are built to live in, and not to look...

I do not believe that any man fears to be...

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend,...

I will never be an old man. To me, old...

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it...

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...

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

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what...

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the...

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his...

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to...

It is as hard and severe a thing to be...

It is as natural to die as to be born;...

It is impossible to love and to be wise....

It is in life as it is in ways, the...

It is natural to die as to be born....

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for...

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent...

Knowledge and human power are synonymous....

Knowledge is power....

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on...

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to...

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he...

Men fear death as children fear to go in the...

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

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by...

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished....

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed....

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice....

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning...

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety....

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is...

Opportunity makes a thief....

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but...

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to...

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or...

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not...

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is...

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and...

Rebellions of the belly are the worst....

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more...

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress....

Science is but an image of the truth....

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and...

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom....

Silence is the virtue of fools....

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts...

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,...

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience....

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability....

The best part of beauty is that which no picture...

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating...

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall;...

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and...

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are...

The great end of life is not knowledge but action....

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

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their...

The momentous thing in human life is the art of...

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in...

The place of justice is a hallowed place....

The remedy is worse than the disease....

The root of all superstition is that men observe when...

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than...

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the...

The worst men often give the best advice....

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships....

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that...

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of...

There is as much difference between the counsel that a...

There is no comparison between that which is lost by...

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness...

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than...

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall...

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land,...

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new...

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

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps...

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

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion....

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking...

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction...

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority....

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set....

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write...

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her....

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay...

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a...

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

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much....

Wise men make more opportunities than they find....

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a...

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

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come...

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter...