Quotes by Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

English philosopher and statesman

Lived from: 1561 - 1626

Category: Politics | Philosophers Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 1 february 1561 Died: 19 april 1626

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  • Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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  • Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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  • Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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  • Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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  • Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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  • Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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  • Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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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.
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  • Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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  • Riches are for spending.
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  • Science is but an image of the truth.
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  • Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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  • Silence is the virtue of fools.
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  • Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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  • Some books are to be tasted, some to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
    Essays (1597)
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  • Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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  • Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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  • Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
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  • Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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  • Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
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