Quotes By Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

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.

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.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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

The remedy is worse than the disease.

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.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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.

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.