{"id":84106,"date":"2017-03-29T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T16:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2018-05-01T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:03:00","slug":"francis-bacon-quotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/francis-bacon-quotations\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Bacon Quotations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Francis Bacon quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a>Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is power.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

It is impossible to love and to be wise.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Friends are thieves of time.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst men often give the best advice.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Opportunity makes a thief.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Life, God, Men<\/span>
\n The great end of life is not knowledge but action.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Life, Great, Knowledge<\/span>
\n Wise men make more opportunities than they find.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Wisdom, Men, Wise<\/span>
\n It is natural to die as to be born.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Acorns were good until bread was found.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

God’s first creature, which was light.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

By indignities men come to dignities.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Science is but an image of the truth.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence is the virtue of fools.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Must, Hard, Worse<\/span>
\n Knowledge and human power are synonymous.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Power, Knowledge, Human<\/span>
\n Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The place of justice is a hallowed place.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The remedy is worse than the disease.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.<\/span>
\n Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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