Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626 · 133 quotes
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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.
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.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
God's first creature, which was light.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Friends are thieves of time.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Knowledge is power.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
It is natural to die as to be born.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
