Quotes By Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon