Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
143 Quotes
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
Francis Bacon
"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out."
Francis Bacon
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
Francis Bacon
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
Francis Bacon
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
Francis Bacon
"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."
Francis Bacon
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
Francis Bacon
"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."
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
"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."
Francis Bacon
"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."
Francis Bacon
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
Francis Bacon
"Acorns were good until bread was found."
Francis Bacon
"The worst men often give the best advice."
Francis Bacon
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
Francis Bacon
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
Francis Bacon
"Friends are thieves of time."
Francis Bacon
"The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief."
Francis Bacon
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
Francis Bacon
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