Francis Bacon Quotes

• It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

  Francis Bacon

• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

  Francis Bacon

• If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

  Francis Bacon

• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

  Francis Bacon

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

  Francis Bacon

• Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

  Francis Bacon

• He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

  Francis Bacon

• Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

  Francis Bacon

• God’s first creature, which was light.

  Francis Bacon

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

  Francis Bacon

• God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

  Francis Bacon

• Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

  Francis Bacon

• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

  Francis Bacon

• Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

  Francis Bacon

• For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

  Francis Bacon

• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  Francis Bacon

• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

  Francis Bacon

• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

  Francis Bacon

• Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

  Francis Bacon

• But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

  Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (265)

Birth:	22nd January, 1561
Death:	9th April, 1626
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher, Scientist, Statesman

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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

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