Francis Bacon

Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy little man religion mind: "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom: "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy people men man religion mind law: "Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man wise: "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rich: "Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science books book: "Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience: "By far the best proof is experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: discover: "Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech: "Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death day little look: "Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world nature understand discover deep look: "For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason: "Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man fear: "He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time evil: "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy men wise deep: "Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad good: "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live look: "Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science work old human nature discover fact: "If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money man: "If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."
Quote link.: "If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."
Quote link.: "If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us."
Quote link.: "I have taken all knowledge to by my province."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Quote link.: "In charity there is no excess."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man government living: "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man nature change: "It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die little pain born: "It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise love: "It is impossible to love and to be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power: "Knowledge is power."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human mind: "Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature understand fact: "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything."
Quote link. Other quotes about: society: "Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art nature: "Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power: "Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need: "Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study."
Quote link.: "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men wise: "Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fear: "Nothing is to be feared but fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk find believe: "Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man nature run law: "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first good rest mind: "Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."
Quote link.: "Silence is the virtue of fools."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book: "Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth nothing man fear lies: "The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man: "There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend world little friends: "There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals."
Quote link. Other quotes about: beauty: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time man nature understand: "The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man life: "The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend friends sin: "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think nothing discover: "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
Quote link.: "Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature: "We cannot command nature except by obeying her."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."