Francis Bacon Quotes

• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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• This world’s a bubble.

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity.

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• Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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• Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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• Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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

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• What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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• We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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• Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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• 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.

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• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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• They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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• Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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• There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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• There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

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• 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.

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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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