202 Quotations by Francis Bacon
- 41. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave ...
- 42. God's first creature was light.
- 43. Good fame is like fire: when you have kindled it you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish i ...
- 44. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; He that gives good counsel and example, builds with ...
- 45. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent ...
- 46. He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
- 47. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra ...
- 48. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- 49. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
- 50. I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
- 51. I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u ...
- 52. I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
- 53. I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
- 54. I would live to study, and not study to live.
- 55. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his ...
- 56. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin wit ...
- 57. If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
- 58. If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to p ...
- 59. If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet runn ...
- 60. If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never befor ...
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