122 Quotes By Francis Bacon


He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon on great

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon on great

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 on happiness

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 on health

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon on history

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon on hope

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 on humor

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

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 on imagination

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon on intelligence

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon on knowledge

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon on knowledge

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon on knowledge

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon on knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon on knowledge

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon on learning

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon on life

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon on love

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon on men

By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon on men