Quotes by Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Bacon, Francis
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Bacon, Francis
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Bacon, Francis
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion.
Bacon, Francis
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
Bacon, Francis
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
Bacon, Francis
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Bacon, Francis
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.
Bacon, Francis
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
Bacon, Francis
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Bacon, Francis
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Bacon, Francis
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Bacon, Francis
So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Bacon, Francis