Francis Bacon Quotes

Knowledge is power.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.