25 Francis Bacon Quotes

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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- Francis Bacon
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
- Francis Bacon
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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
- Francis Bacon
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
- Francis Bacon
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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
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
- Francis Bacon
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
- Francis Bacon
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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.
- Francis Bacon
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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.
- Francis Bacon
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
- Francis Bacon
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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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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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
- Francis Bacon
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
- Francis Bacon
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Knowledge is power.
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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
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
- Francis Bacon
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
- Francis Bacon
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
- Francis Bacon
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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.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
- Francis Bacon
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Total Quotes Found: 27