Francis Bacon

For also knowledge itself is power.

— Francis Bacon

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

— Francis Bacon

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

— Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

— Francis Bacon

The remedy is worse than the disease.

— Francis Bacon

Riches are for spending.

— Francis Bacon

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

— Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

— Francis Bacon

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

— Francis Bacon

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

— Francis Bacon

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

— Francis Bacon

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

— Francis Bacon

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

— Francis Bacon

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

— Francis Bacon

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to…

— Francis Bacon

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the…

— Francis Bacon

“It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does…

— Francis Bacon

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth…

— Francis Bacon

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

— Francis Bacon

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as…

— Francis Bacon

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

— Francis Bacon

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to…

— Francis Bacon

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others,…

— Francis Bacon

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things…

— Francis Bacon

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid…

— Francis Bacon

By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose…

— Francis Bacon

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then…

— Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks…

— Francis Bacon

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but…

— Francis Bacon

“sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap…

— Francis Bacon

Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find…

— Francis Bacon

Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered…

— Francis Bacon

“man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and…

— Francis Bacon

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars…

— Francis Bacon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or…

— Francis Bacon

“I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop 's pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of…

— Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh…

— Francis Bacon

“It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of…

— Francis Bacon