Francis Bacon Quotes

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

Men, Power, Knowledge

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

Nation, Genius, Spirit

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon

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

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon

Revenge, Green, Wounds

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon

Down, Thoughts, Moment

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon

Time, Living, Creatures

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Men, Leave, Next

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon

Live, Before, Houses

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

Death, Dead, Fears

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon

True, Hard, Moral

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

Die, Born, Natural

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

Life, Ways, Surely

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

Power, Knowledge, Human

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Opinion, Lies, Substance

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon

Strength, Opposition, Grows

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon

Nothing, Pleasant, Variety

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon

Fear, Adversity, Prosperity

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon

Adversity, Old, Blessing

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon

Happy, Person, Makes

The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon

Justice, Place, Hallowed

The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon

Worse, Disease, Remedy

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

Nature, Times, Greater

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

Men, Giving, Together

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 21, 1561

Died: April 9, 1626

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