Francis Bacon Quotes: Knowledge is power
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman and essayist.
Francis Bacon Quotes:
Francis Bacon Quotes
1. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
― Francis Bacon
2. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
― Francis Bacon
3. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
― Francis Bacon
4. Come home to men’s business and bosoms.
― Francis Bacon
5. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
― Francis Bacon
6. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
― Francis Bacon
7. There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
― Francis Bacon
8. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
― Francis Bacon
9. Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
― Francis Bacon
10. Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
― Francis Bacon
11. Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
― Francis Bacon
12. Knowledge is power.
― Francis Bacon
13. Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
― Francis Bacon
14. Silence is the virtue of fools.
― Francis Bacon
15. Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
― Francis Bacon
16. It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
― Francis Bacon
17. For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
― Francis Bacon
18. In charity there is no excess.
― Francis Bacon
19. The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
― Francis Bacon
20. I believe in deeply ordered chaos.
― Francis Bacon
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