Francis Bacon Quotes
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.
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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
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All will come out in the washing.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.
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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.