Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Knowing Quotes

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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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.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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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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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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