73 quotes by Francis Bacon

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” — Francis Bacon

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“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.” — Francis Bacon

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“The worst men often give the best advice.” — Francis Bacon

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“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.” — Francis Bacon

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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.” — Francis Bacon

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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” — Francis Bacon

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“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.” — Francis Bacon

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“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” — Francis Bacon

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“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

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“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.” — Francis Bacon

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“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.” — Francis Bacon

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“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.” — Francis Bacon

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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” — Francis Bacon

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“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” — Francis Bacon

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“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.” — Francis Bacon

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“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.” — Francis Bacon

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“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” — Francis Bacon

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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” — Francis Bacon

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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.” — Francis Bacon

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“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.” — Francis Bacon

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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.” — Francis Bacon

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“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” — Francis Bacon

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“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.” — Francis Bacon

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