Amazing Francis Bacon Quotes

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, the former lord chancellor, and statesman. He was born on 22 January 1561 in York house at Strand. He was attorney general and former lord chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and the scientific revolution. He was educated was conducted largely in Latin and followed the medieval curriculum. He stated that he had three goals: to uncover the truth, to serve his country, and to serve his church. He has become known as a liberal-minded reformer, eager to amend and simplify the law. He believed that philosophy and word must study basically but argued that we can only study. He died on 9 April 1626 at high-gate in London. He has been called the father of empiricism. 

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"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority." -Francis Bacon

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

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." -Francis Bacon

"In the order of the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." -Francis Bacon

"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner." -Francis Bacon

"God almighty first planted a garden, and indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." -Francis Bacon

"Whoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." -Francis Bacon

"The way of fortune is like the milk-way 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

"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

"Knowledge is power." -Francis Bacon

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -Francis Bacon

"In charity, there is no excess." -Francis Bacon

"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." -Francis Bacon

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

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -Francis Bacon

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity, we have only this moment sparkly like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake." -Francis Bacon

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." -Francis Bacon

"It is impossible to love and be wise." -Francis Bacon

"The fewer people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it." -Francis Bacon

"Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends." -Francis Bacon

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses." -Francis Bacon

"Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt when thoroughly explored, it dispels it." -Francis Bacon

"Come home to men is the business and bosoms." -Francis Bacon

"Prosperity is the blessings of the old testaments; adversity is the blessing of the new." -Francis Bacon

"The desired power in excess caused the angels to fail; the desire of knowledge in excess caused the man to fall." -Francis Bacon

"It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less." -Francis Bacon

"And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." -Francis Bacon

"If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune for though she is blind, she is not invisible." -Francis Bacon

"Men is thought, are much according to their inclination, their discourse, and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions." -Francis Bacon

"A little philosophy" incline man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. -Francis Bacon

"Princes like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest." -Francis Bacon

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men nurses." -Francis Bacon

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

"All colors will agree in the dark." -Francis Bacon

"Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust." -Francis Bacon

"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid." -Francis Bacon