Francis Bacon Quotes

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Francis Bacon

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : January 22, 1561

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon