Quotes from Francis Bacon

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span.

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The remedy is worse than the disease.