“Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

— Francis Bacon

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

— Francis Bacon

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

— Francis Bacon

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

— Francis Bacon

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

— Francis Bacon

“Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.”

— Francis Bacon

“I would live to study, not study to live.”

— Francis Bacon

“Science is but an image of the truth.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

“Reading maketh a full man.”

— Francis Bacon

“By far the best proof is experience.”

— Francis Bacon

“It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”

— Francis Bacon

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

— Francis Bacon

“Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”

— Francis Bacon

“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”

— Francis Bacon

“I believe in deeply ordered chaos.”

— Francis Bacon

“We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.”

— Francis Bacon

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

— Francis Bacon

“If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”

— Francis Bacon

“All colours will agree in the dark.”

— Francis Bacon

“Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.”

— Francis Bacon

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice.”

— Francis Bacon

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”

— Francis Bacon

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake...”

— Francis Bacon

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

— Francis Bacon

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

— Francis Bacon

“The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”

— Francis Bacon

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

— Francis Bacon

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

“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

“To know truly is to know by causes.”

— Francis Bacon

“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”

— Francis Bacon

“Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.”

— Francis Bacon

“Without friends the world is but a wilderness.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

“For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.”

— Francis Bacon

“Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.”

— Francis Bacon

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”

— Francis Bacon

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”

— Francis Bacon

“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”

— Francis Bacon

“Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.”

— Francis Bacon

“Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.”

— Francis Bacon

“A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”

— Francis Bacon

“Wonder is the seed of knowledge.”

— Francis Bacon