Sir Francis Bacon - Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
Sir Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
By far the best proof is experience.
Sir Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon - Meditationes Sacr?. De H?resibus. (1597)
Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)
Sir Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Sir Francis Bacon - Essays: Of Building, 1623
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Sir Francis Bacon
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Sir Francis Bacon - "Of Beauty"
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Sir Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Sir Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Sir Francis Bacon
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
Sir Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Sir Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
Sir Francis Bacon
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Sir Francis Bacon
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Sir Francis Bacon - Of Seditions and Troubles
Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
Sir Francis Bacon - Of Empire
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Sir Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Sir Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Sir Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Sir Francis Bacon - Of Adversity
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Sir Francis Bacon - O Magazine, April 2003
Read not to contradict and confute?nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon - The Advancement of Learning, 1605
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Sir Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Sir Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Sir Francis Bacon - Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
In charity there is no excess.
Sir Francis Bacon - "Of Death"
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.
Sir Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Sir Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Sir Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Sir 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.
Sir Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
Sir Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Sir Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Sir Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.

- Sir Francis Bacon - Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597