Top 500 Francis Bacon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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4. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

10. “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

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11. “Reading maketh a full man.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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13. “Science is but an image of the truth.”

— Francis Bacon

14. “By far the best proof is experience.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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19. “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

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

— Francis Bacon

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21. “Revenge is a kind of wild justice.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

24. “I believe in deeply ordered chaos.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

27. “All colours will agree in the dark.”

— Francis Bacon

28. “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

29. “Without friends the world is but a wilderness.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

34. “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

35. “Wonder is the seed of knowledge.”

— Francis Bacon

36. “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

37. “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.”

— Francis Bacon

38. “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

40. “Opportunity makes a thief.”

— Francis Bacon

41. “To know truly is to know by causes.”

— Francis Bacon

42. “He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”

— Francis Bacon

43. “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

44. “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”

— Francis Bacon

45. “Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.”

— Francis Bacon

46. “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

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

50. “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