Francis Bacon Quotes

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Francis Bacon

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : January 22, 1561

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Francis Bacon

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Francis Bacon

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Francis Bacon

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

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.

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.

Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Francis Bacon