Quotes By Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon