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Quotes from Francis Bacon

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
~ Francis Bacon
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
~ Francis Bacon
When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
~ Francis Bacon
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
~ Francis Bacon
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
~ Francis Bacon
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
~ Francis Bacon
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
~ Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
~ Francis Bacon
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
~ Francis Bacon
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
~ Francis Bacon
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
~ Francis Bacon
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
~ Francis Bacon
Science is but an image of the truth.
~ Francis Bacon
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
~ Francis Bacon
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
~ Francis Bacon
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
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
~ Francis Bacon
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
~ Francis Bacon
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
~ Francis Bacon
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
~ Francis Bacon
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures
~ Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~ Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
~ Francis Bacon
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
~ Francis Bacon