Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Francis Bacon quotes, Francis Bacon sayings, and Francis Bacon proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.Francis Bacon
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.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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Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.Francis Bacon
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New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.Francis Bacon
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. Francis Bacon
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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.Francis Bacon
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Suspicions amongst Thoughts, are like Bats amongst Birds; they never fly but by Twilight."Francis Bacon
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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.Francis Bacon
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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.Francis Bacon
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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.Francis Bacon
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.Francis Bacon
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.Francis Bacon
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.Francis Bacon
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.Francis Bacon
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The master of superstition is the people, and in all superstition wise men follow fools, and arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order.Francis Bacon
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.Francis Bacon
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An ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden.Francis Bacon
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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.Francis Bacon
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.Francis Bacon
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst. Francis Bacon
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.Francis Bacon
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.Francis Bacon
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.Francis Bacon
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.Francis Bacon
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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.Francis Bacon
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.Francis Bacon
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.Francis Bacon