Francis Bacon Quotes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Friends are thieves of time.

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

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.

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

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

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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