Francis Bacon Quotes And Sayings

A Wise Man Will Make More Opportunities Than He Finds.

Young People Are Fitter To Invent Than To Judge; Fitter For Execution Than For Counsel; And More Fit For New Projects Than For Settled Business.

The Desire Of Excessive Power Caused The Angels To Fall; The Desire Of Knowledge Caused Men To Fall.

Things Alter For The Worse Spontaneously, If They Be Not Altered For The Better Designedly.

Write Down The Thoughts Of The Moment. Those That Come Unsought For Are Commonly The Most Valuable.

Fortitude Is The Marshal Of Thought, The Armor Of The Will, And The Fort Of Reason.

Truth Is So Hard To Tell, It Sometimes Needs Fiction To Make It Plausible.

Truth Emerges More Readily From Error Than From Confusion.

The Great End Of Life Is Not Knowledge But Action.

As The Births Of Living Creatures Are At First Ill-shapen, So Are All Innovations, Which Are The Births Of Time.

Seek Ye First The Good Things Of The Mind, And The Rest Will Either Be Supplied Or Its Loss Will Not Be Felt.

A Man Must Make His Opportunity, As Oft As Find It.

Therefore If A Man Look Sharply And Attentively, He Shall See Fortune; For Though She Be Blind, Yet She Is Not Invisible.

Good Fame Is Like Fire; When You Have Kindled You May Easily Preserve It; But If You Extinguish It, You Will Not Easily Kindle It Again.

Lies Are Sufficient To Breed Opinion, And Opinion Brings On Substance.

Life, An Age To The Miserable, And A Moment To The Happy.

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.

The Subtlety Of Nature Is Greater Many Times Over Than The Subtlety Of The Senses And Understanding.

Opportunity Makes A Thief.

Antiquities Are History Defaced, Or Some Remnants Of History Which Have Casually Escaped The Shipwreck Of Time.

Revenge Is A Kind Of Wild Justice, Which The More A Man's Nature Runs To, The More Ought Law To Weed It Out.

By Indignities Men Come To Dignities.

The Fortune Which Nobody Sees Makes A Person Happy And Unenvied.

Children Sweeten Labours, But They Make Misfortunes More Bitter.

It Is As Hard And Severe A Thing To Be A True Politician As To Be Truly Moral.

It Is As Hard And Severe A Thing To Be A True Politician As To Be Truly Moral.

People Have Discovered That They Can Fool The Devil; But They Can't Fool The Neighbors.

He That Will Not Apply New Remedies Must Expect New Evils; For Time Is The Greatest Innovator.

The Momentous Thing In Human Life Is The Art Of Winning The Soul To Good Or Evil.

Acorns Were Good Until Bread Was Found.

There Is No Excellent Beauty That Hath Not Some Strangeness In The Proportion.

Truth Is The Daughter Of Time, Not Of Authority.

Fame Is Like A River, That Beareth Up Things Light And Swollen, And Drowns Things Weighty And Solid.

The Pencil Of The Holy Ghost Hath Labored More In Describing The Afflictions Of Job Than The Felicities Of Solomon.

Prosperity Is The Blessing Of The Old Testament; Adversity Is The Blessing Of The New.

People Usually Think According To Their Inclinations, Speak According To Their Learning And Ingrained Opinions, But Generally Act According To Custom.

Fortune Is Like The Market, Where, Many Times, If You Can Stay A Little, The Price Will Fall.

God Has Placed No Limits To The Exercise Of The Intellect He Has Given Us, On This Side Of The Grave.