Francis Bacon Quotes

• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

  Francis Bacon

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• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

  Francis Bacon

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• The remedy is worse than the disease.

  Francis Bacon

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• Friends are thieves of time.

  Francis Bacon

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• Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

  Francis Bacon

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• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism

• The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man’s self.

  Francis Bacon

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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  Tags in Question

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

  Francis Bacon

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• Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

  Francis Bacon

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• Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

  Francis Bacon

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• It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

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• 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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• He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man’s goods than his own.

  Francis Bacon

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Beauty

• Art is man added to nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Art

• It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

  Francis Bacon

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• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

  Francis Bacon

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  A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

  Francis Bacon

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  Tags in Prison, Sick

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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