Famous Francis Bacon Quotes
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Francis Bacon
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
God’s first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
By far the best proof is experience.
Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon