Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
FRANCIS BACONNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
-
-
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
FRANCIS BACON -
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
FRANCIS BACON -
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
FRANCIS BACON -
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
FRANCIS BACON -
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
FRANCIS BACON -
Knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON -
There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
FRANCIS BACON -
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACON -
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACON -
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON -
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON -
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
FRANCIS BACON -
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
FRANCIS BACON -
Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
FRANCIS BACON -
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON







