Francis Bacon Quotes, Learning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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