Francis Bacon Quotes And Sayings

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive and careful observation of events in nature. Bacon was generally neglected at court by Queen Elizabeth, but after the accession of King James I in 1603, Bacon was knighted.

Knowledge And Human Power Are Synonymous.

Wise Men Make More Opportunities Than They Find.

In Order For The Light To Shine So Brightly, The Darkness Must Be Present.

Who Questions Much, Shall Learn Much, And Retain Much.

Houses Are Built To Live In, And Not To Look On: Therefore Let Use Be Preferred Before Uniformity.

God Almighty First Planted A Garden. And Indeed, It Is The Purest Of Human Pleasures.

They Are Ill Discoverers That Think There Is No Land, When They Can See Nothing But Sea.

No Body Can Be Healthful Without Exercise, Neither Natural Body Nor Politic, And Certainly, To A Kingdom Or Estate, A Just And Honourable War Is The True Exercise.

Certainly The Best Works, And Of Greatest Merit For The Public, Have Proceeded From The Unmarried, Or Childless Men.

Of All Virtues And Dignities Of The Mind, Goodness Is The Greatest, Being The Character Of The Deity; And Without It, Man Is A Busy, Mischievous, Wretched Thing.

Silence Is The Virtue Of Fools.

There Is As Much Difference Between The Counsel That A Friend Giveth, And That A Man Giveth Himself, As There Is Between The Counsel Of A Friend And Of A Flatterer. For There Is No Such Flatterer As Is A Man's Self.

In Taking Revenge, A Man Is But Even With His Enemy; But In Passing It Over, He Is Superior.

Discretion Of Speech Is More Than Eloquence, And To Speak Agreeably To Him With Whom We Deal Is More Than To Speak In Good Words, Or In Good Order.

This Is Certain, That A Man That Studieth Revenge Keeps His Wounds Green, Which Otherwise Would Heal And Do Well.

Next To Religion, Let Your Care Be To Promote Justice.

Many A Man's Strength Is In Opposition, And When He Faileth, He Grows Out Of Use.

What Is Truth? Said Jesting Pilate; And Would Not Stay For An Answer.

Virtue Is Like A Rich Stone, Best Plain Set.

Pictures And Shapes Are But Secondary Objects And Please Or Displease Only In The Memory.

We Are Much Beholden To Machiavel And Others, That Write What Men Do, And Not What They Ought To Do.

But Men Must Know, That In This Theatre Of Man's Life It Is Reserved Only For God And Angels To Be Lookers On.

If A Man Be Gracious And Courteous To Strangers, It Shows He Is A Citizen Of The World.

It Is In Life As It Is In Ways, The Shortest Way Is Commonly The Foulest, And Surely The Fairer Way Is Not Much About.

There Is Nothing Makes A Man Suspect Much, More Than To Know Little.

He That Hath Knowledge Spareth His Words.

There Is A Wisdom In This Beyond The Rules Of Physic: A Man's Own Observation What He Finds Good Of And What He Finds Hurt Of Is The Best Physic To Preserve Health.

Money Is Like Manure, Of Very Little Use Except It Be Spread.

Rebellions Of The Belly Are The Worst.

The Remedy Is Worse Than The Disease.

The Place Of Justice Is A Hallowed Place.

I Do Not Believe That Any Man Fears To Be Dead, But Only The Stroke Of Death.

God's First Creature, Which Was Light.

For My Name And Memory I Leave To Men's Charitable Speeches, And To Foreign Nations And The Next Ages.

The Quarrels And Divisions About Religion Were Evils Unknown To The Heathen. The Reason Was Because The Religion Of The Heathen Consisted Rather In Rites And Ceremonies Than In Any Constant Belief.

A Sudden Bold And Unexpected Question Doth Many Times Surprise A Man And Lay Him Open.

Science Is But An Image Of The Truth.

Judges Must Beware Of Hard Constructions And Strained Inferences, For There Is No Worse Torture Than That Of Laws.

Judges Must Beware Of Hard Constructions And Strained Inferences, For There Is No Worse Torture Than That Of Laws.

Studies Serve For Delight, For Ornaments, And For Ability.

Riches Are A Good Hand Maiden, But A Poor Mistress.

Nothing Is Pleasant That Is Not Spiced With Variety.

Anger Is Certainly A Kind Of Baseness, As It Appears Well In The Weakness Of Those Subjects In Whom It Reigns: Children, Women, Old Folks, Sick Folks.

If A Man's Wit Be Wandering, Let Him Study The Mathematics.

It Is A True Rule That Love Is Ever Rewarded, Either With The Reciproque Or With An Inward And Secret Contempt.

We Cannot Command Nature Except By Obeying Her.

Some Books Are To Be Tasted, Others To Be Swallowed, And Some Few To Be Chewed And Digested.

The Way Of Fortune Is Like The Milkyway In The Sky; Which Is A Number Of Small Stars, Not Seen Asunder, But Giving Light Together: So It Is A Number Of Little And Scarce Discerned Virtues, Or Rather Faculties And Customs, That Make Men Fortunate.

Knowledge Is Power.

I Will Never Be An Old Man. To Me, Old Age Is Always 15 Years Older Than I Am.