50+ Francis Bacon Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
FRANCIS BACON

Master One Liner Servant
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON

One Liner Wisdom
Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
FRANCIS BACON

Knowledge One Liner Seed Wonder
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON

One Liner Silence Virtue
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

Forever Hands Inspirational Live Moment Stars
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
FRANCIS BACON

Art Deep Job Mystery One Liner
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACON

Bad Food Good Hope One Liner
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON

Believe Philosophy Reading Talk
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACON

Book Science
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON

Greatness Master Money One Liner
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Doubt Excitement Philosophy Study
There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON

Beautiful Deep Strange
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Fear Limit One Liner Suffering
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

Age Best Burn Deep Friendship Old Philosophy Trust Wine
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Discover Land Philosophy Sea Think
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
FRANCIS BACON

Believe Man One Liner True
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
FRANCIS BACON

Command Nature One Liner
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
FRANCIS BACON

Enemy Man Philosophy Revenge
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON

Beautiful Best Expression
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
FRANCIS BACON

Book Creation God Himself Religious Writing
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Evil Himself Innovation Philosophy Time
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON

God Philosophy Solitude
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Greatness People Philosophy Speak Think
By far the best proof is experience.
FRANCIS BACON

Evidence Experience Far
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACON

History Man Mathematics Nature Philosophy Poet Wise
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Lost Philosophy Success Try
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Lost Man Old Philosophy Time Young

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