Quotes by Francis Bacon

About Francis Bacon:

Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s observation, what he finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

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

I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or for fame, or power, o...

Francis Bacon

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." [ ]

Francis Bacon

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

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... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...

Francis Bacon

It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped shipwreck, and would have him say whether he did not now acknowledge the power of the gods, — ‘Aye...

Francis Bacon

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

Francis Bacon

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

Francis Bacon

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

Francis Bacon

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Francis Bacon

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Francis Bacon

Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. 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 a m...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameFrancis Bacon
  • DescriptionEnglish philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
  • AliasesFrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban
  • BornJanuary 22, 1561
  • DiedApril 19, 1626
  • CountryKingdom Of England
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer; Judge; Politician