Use Quotes by Francis Bacon

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

— Francis Bacon

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

— Francis Bacon

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

— Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

— Francis Bacon

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

— Francis Bacon

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received…

— Francis Bacon

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

— Francis Bacon

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I…

— Francis Bacon

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that…

— Francis Bacon

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Francis Bacon

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Francis Bacon

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man…

— Francis Bacon

There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,…

— Francis Bacon