Men Quotes by Francis Bacon

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

— Francis Bacon

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

— Francis Bacon

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

— Francis Bacon

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

— Francis Bacon

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

— Francis Bacon

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

— Francis Bacon

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

— Francis Bacon

Man was formed for society.

— Francis Bacon

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards…

— Francis Bacon

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

— Francis Bacon

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

— Francis Bacon

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

— Francis Bacon

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

— Francis Bacon

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

— Francis Bacon

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

— Francis Bacon

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the…

— Francis Bacon

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of…

— Francis Bacon

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

— Francis Bacon

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is…

— Francis Bacon

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

— Francis Bacon

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be…

— Francis Bacon

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment…

— Francis Bacon

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some…

— Francis Bacon

There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,…

— Francis Bacon

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,…

— Francis Bacon

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of…

— Francis Bacon

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well…

— Francis Bacon

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and…

— Francis Bacon

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon…

— Francis Bacon

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but…

— Francis Bacon

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions…

— Francis Bacon

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.…

— Francis Bacon

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for…

— Francis Bacon

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly…

— Francis Bacon

The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is…

— Francis Bacon

First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts…

— Francis Bacon

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the…

— Francis Bacon

The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is…

— Francis Bacon