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Francis Bacon QUOTES

61 " Knowledge is power. "

― Francis Bacon , History of the Reign of King Henry VII

62 " It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. "

― Francis Bacon

63 " Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. "

― Francis Bacon

64 " Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. "

― Francis Bacon

65 " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. "

― Francis Bacon

66 " Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. "

― Francis Bacon

67 " Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. "

― Francis Bacon

68 " Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. "

― Francis Bacon

69 " A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

― Francis Bacon

70 " Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. "

― Francis Bacon

71 " Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women. "

― Francis Bacon , The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon

72 " 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 , The Essays

73 " Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. 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 a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. "

― Francis Bacon

74 " I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop's pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the sky, raises new skies and new spheres and circles. "

― Francis Bacon , The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon

75 " And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under the ground in his vineyard: and they digged over the ground, gold they found none, but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following: so assuredly the search and stir to make gold hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and experiments, as well for the disclosing of nature as for the use of man's life. "

― Francis Bacon , The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning (The Oxford Francis Bacon, #4)

76 " The punishing of wits enhances their authority. "

― Francis Bacon

77 " Knowledge is power. The real test of knowledge is not whether it is true but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100% correct. Truth, consequently, is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge. "

― Francis Bacon , Neues Organon, Volume 1...

78 " Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it.
Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson "

― Francis Bacon

79 " There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances. "

― Francis Bacon

80 " Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. "

― Francis Bacon