Francis Bacon

All colours will agree in the dark.

— Francis Bacon

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

Always let losers have their words.

— Francis Bacon

All will come out in the washing.

— Francis Bacon

God's first creature, which was light.

— Francis Bacon

Time is the measure of business.

— Francis Bacon

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

— Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

— Francis Bacon

Awise man will make more opportunities than he finds

— Francis Bacon

“A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

— Francis Bacon

Innovations, which are the births of time.

— Francis Bacon

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

— 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

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

— Francis Bacon

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

— Francis Bacon

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the…

— 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

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

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between…

— 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

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but…

— 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

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with…

— Francis Bacon

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or…

— Francis Bacon

“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of…

— Francis Bacon

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the…

— Francis Bacon

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a…

— Francis Bacon

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they…

— 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

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.…

— Francis Bacon

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence…

— Francis Bacon

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is…

— 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

“But when men have at hand a remedy more agreeable to their corrupt will, marriage is almost expulsed. And therefore there are…

— Francis Bacon

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,…

— Francis Bacon