quotes by Francis Bacon

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. "
— Francis Bacon

"Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not."
— Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
— Francis Bacon

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
— Francis Bacon

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
— Francis Bacon

"Ipsa scientia potestas est.
(Knowledge itself is power.)"
— Francis Bacon

""Wonder is the seed of knowledge""
— Francis Bacon

"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."
— Francis Bacon

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
— Francis Bacon

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
— Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
— Francis Bacon

"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."
— Francis Bacon

"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."
— Francis Bacon

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
— Francis Bacon

""Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.""
— Francis Bacon

"... great boldness is seldom without some absurdity."
— Francis Bacon

""Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider." "
— Francis Bacon

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
— Francis Bacon

"A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion."
— Francis Bacon

""Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and therefore if a man write little, he had need have a good memory; if he confer little, he had need of much cunning, to appear to know what he doth not.""
— Francis Bacon

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
— Francis Bacon

"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with questions and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. "
— Francis Bacon

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
— Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is Power."
— 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 can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together."
— Francis Bacon (The Advancement of Learning)

"the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."
— Francis Bacon

"Reading maketh a full man."
— Francis Bacon

"'Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends'"
— Francis Bacon

"A little science estranges a man from God. A lot of science brings him back."
— Francis Bacon

"For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come."
— Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is Power"
— Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
— Francis Bacon

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

from "Of Studies" by Sir Francis Bacon -- English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)"
— Francis Bacon

"To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men."
— Francis Bacon

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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— Francis Bacon

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea."
— Francis Bacon

"The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship."
— Francis Bacon

"God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation."
— Francis Bacon

"Kebijaksanaan dalam berbicara lebih berharga daripada kefasihan."
— Francis Bacon

"For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture." -Francis Bacon "
— Francis Bacon

"But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation."
— Francis Bacon (ELEMENTS COMMON LAWES ENG)

"The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own."
— Francis Bacon

"The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."
— Francis Bacon (Novum Organum)

"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure"
— Francis Bacon

"Se venger, c'est se mettre au niveau de l'ennemi; pardonner, c'est le dépasser.

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— Francis Bacon

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake..."
— Francis Bacon

"It is a sad date for a man to die to well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself "
— Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportion"
— Francis Bacon

"...[Knowledge is] a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate."
— Francis Bacon ("Essays" of Francis Bacon)

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. "
— Francis Bacon