Knowledge is power.
-- Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
-- Francis Bacon
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
-- Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Francis Bacon
By far the best proof is experience.
-- Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
-- Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
-- Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
-- Francis Bacon
I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
-- 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
Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
-- Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
-- Francis Bacon
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.
-- Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
-- Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
-- Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
-- Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.
-- 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
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
-- Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
-- Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-- Francis Bacon
Truth and utility are the very same thing.
-- Francis Bacon
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
-- Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
-- Francis Bacon
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
-- Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Francis Bacon
By far the best proof is experience.
-- Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
-- Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
-- Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
-- Francis Bacon
I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
-- 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
Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
-- Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
-- Francis Bacon
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.
-- Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
-- Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
-- Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
-- Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.
-- 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
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
-- Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
-- Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-- Francis Bacon
Truth and utility are the very same thing.
-- Francis Bacon
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
-- Francis Bacon
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
-- 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
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
-- Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-- Francis Bacon
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
-- Francis Bacon
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that they shed tears when they would devour.
-- Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
-- Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon
Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
-- Francis Bacon
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