Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.

— Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and be wise.

— Francis Bacon

Opportunity makes a thief.

— Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

— Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

— Francis Bacon

To know truly is to know by causes.

— Francis Bacon

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

— Francis Bacon

Time is the greatest innovator.

— Francis Bacon

“There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.”

— Francis Bacon

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

— Francis Bacon

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

— Francis Bacon

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

— Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

— Francis Bacon

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

— 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

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and…

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

— Francis Bacon

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than…

— 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

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

— Francis Bacon

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in…

— Francis Bacon

There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as…

— Francis Bacon

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into…

— 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

“People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's…

— Francis Bacon

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you…

— 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

Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if…

— 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

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

— Francis Bacon

“Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of…

— 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