Quotes By Francis Bacon

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.