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 Francis Bacon is considered by some to have been the most important philosopher of his day.
He was a Renaissance man interested in scientific, philosophical and literary studies.
The philosopher Karl Popper said of him: "Bacon made our world."
The Quotes
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The worst men often give the best advice.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
We are much beholden to Machiavelli
and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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