Francis Bacon Quotes

Time is the author of authors.

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Man was formed for society.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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