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Francis Bacon Quote: “Knowledge is power.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

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

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “Science is but an image of the truth.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “I would live to study, not study to live.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Reading maketh a full man.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “By far the best proof is experience.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “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 Quote: “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “I believe in deeply ordered chaos.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “All colours will agree in the dark.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Revenge is a kind of wild justice.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “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 Quote: “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “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 Quote: “To know truly is to know by causes.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “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 Quote: “Without friends the world is but a wilderness.”

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

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Truth is a naked and open daylight.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “There is superstition in avoiding superstition.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Wonder is the seed of knowledge.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “A lie faces God and shrinks from man.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Art is man added to Nature.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: ‘Be angry, but sin not.’ ‘Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.’”

Francis Bacon Quote: “The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “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 Quote: “It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.”

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

Francis Bacon Quote: “The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Opportunity makes a thief.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Silence is the virtue of fools.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body and reduce it to harmony.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “The folly of one man is the fortune of another.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “As is the garden such is the gardener. A man’s nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist’s mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...”

Francis Bacon Quote: “Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.”

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