Francis Bacon Quotes

God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon

God, Light, Creature

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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Read, Granted, Nor

Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon

Truth, Science, Image

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge, Words, Hath

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

Power, Self, Strange

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Silence, Virtue, Fools

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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Nation, Genius, Spirit

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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Children, Bitter, Labours

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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Job, Holy, Ghost

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

Beauty, Excellent, Hath

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Great, Friends, Forgive

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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Time, History, Casually

By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon

God, Greatest, Smallest

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon

Good, Fire, May

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Death, Men, Fear

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

Religion, Care, Justice

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Memory, Pictures, Please

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon

Good, Mind, Rest

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Nature, Experience, Perfect

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon

Ability, Serve, Studies

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon

Men, Power, Knowledge

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Nature, Times, Greater

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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Real, Solitude, Worst

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

Imagination, Nothing, Sea

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 21, 1561

Died: April 9, 1626

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