Francis Bacon Quotes
+3The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
- Francis Bacon
+3All colors will agree in the dark.
- Francis Bacon
+3Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
- Francis Bacon
+1A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
+1The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
- Francis Bacon
+1Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
- Francis Bacon
+1Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Francis Bacon
+1Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
- Francis Bacon
+1Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
- Francis Bacon
+1And he that will not apply New Remedies, must expect New Evils; for Time is the greatest Innovator.
- Francis Bacon
+1Histories make men wise.
- Francis Bacon
+1Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon
+1For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
- Francis Bacon
+1Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.
- Francis Bacon
+1Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind.
- Francis Bacon
+1For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
- Francis Bacon
+1We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
+1A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
+1Man was formed for society.
- Francis Bacon
+1Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
+1The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.
- Francis Bacon
+1The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon
+1So if a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
- Francis Bacon
+1He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
- Francis Bacon
+1Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
- Francis Bacon