Knowledge Quotes by Francis Bacon

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

— Francis Bacon

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

— Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

— Francis Bacon

For also knowledge itself is power.

— Francis Bacon

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

— Francis Bacon

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

— Francis Bacon

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

— Francis Bacon

“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”

— Francis Bacon

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

— Francis Bacon

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

— 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

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but…

— Francis Bacon

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature 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

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

— Francis Bacon

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of…

— Francis Bacon

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid…

— Francis Bacon

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some…

— 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

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

— Francis Bacon

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories…

— 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

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united…

— Francis Bacon

But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human…

— Francis Bacon

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

— 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

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

— Francis Bacon

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man…

— Francis Bacon

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing…

— Francis Bacon

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to…

— Francis Bacon

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it…

— Francis Bacon

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that…

— Francis Bacon

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed…

— Francis Bacon

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material,…

— Francis Bacon