Quotes by Francis Bacon
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
- Francis Bacon, Sr.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon
By far the best proof is experience.
- Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
- Francis Bacon
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
- Francis Bacon
God’s first creature, which was light.
- Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- Francis Bacon
Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
― Francis Bacon
Reading makes a man full.
― Francis Bacon
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
― Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.
― Francis Bacon
There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
― Francis Bacon
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
― Francis Bacon
Revenge is a king of wild justice.
― Francis Bacon
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
― Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
― Francis Bacon