One of our greatest and most powerful intellects! He was a philosopher and statesman. He was also the great minister of Queen Elizabeth. His developments of the inductive philosophy revolutionized the future thought of the human race. Bacon saw himself as the inventor of a method which would kindle a light in nature – “a light that would eventually disclose and bring into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the universe.”
This method involved the collection of data, their judicious interpretation, the carrying out of experiments, thus to learn the secrets of nature by organized observation of its regularities. Bacon’s proposals had a powerful influence on the development of science in seventeenth-century Europe. (1561-1626)
– Francis Bacon Quotes –
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.
~ Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
~ Francis Bacon
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.
~ Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
~ Francis Bacon
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
~ 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
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
~ Francis Bacon
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
~ Francis Bacon
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
~ Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
~ Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
~ Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
~ Francis Bacon
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
~ Francis Bacon
The remedy is worse than the disease.
~ Francis Bacon
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
~ Francis Bacon
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
~ Francis Bacon
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
~ Francis Bacon
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
~ Francis Bacon
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
~ Francis Bacon
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
~ Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
~ 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
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
~ Francis Bacon
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
~ Francis Bacon
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
~ Francis Bacon
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
~ Francis Bacon
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
~ Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
~ Francis Bacon
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
~ Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
~ Francis Bacon
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
~ Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
~ Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
~ Francis Bacon
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.
~ 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
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
~ Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
~ Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
~ Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
~ Francis Bacon
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
~ Francis Bacon
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
~ Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
~ Francis Bacon
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.
~ Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
~ Francis Bacon
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush.
~ Francis Bacon
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
~ Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
~ Francis Bacon
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
~ Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
~ 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
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks God’s first creature, which was light.
~ Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
~ Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
~ Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
~ Francis Bacon
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
~ Francis Bacon
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
~ 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
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
~ Francis Bacon
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
~ Francis Bacon
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
~ Francis Bacon
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
~ Francis Bacon
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
~ Francis Bacon
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.
~ Francis Bacon
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
~ Francis Bacon
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
~ Francis Bacon
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~ Francis Bacon
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
~ Francis Bacon
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
~ Francis Bacon
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
~ Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
~ Francis Bacon
For also knowledge itself is power.
~ Francis Bacon
Opportunity makes a thief.
~ Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
~ Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
~ Francis Bacon
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
~ Francis Bacon
