Francis Bacon Quotes (133 quotes)

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„There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.“
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„Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.“
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„Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.“
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„The place of justice is a hallowed place.“
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„What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.“
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„They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.“
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„Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.“
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„I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.“
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„As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.“
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„It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.“
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„The remedy is worse than the disease.“
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„God's first creature, which was light.“
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„Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.“
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„He that hath knowledge spareth his words.“
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„The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.“
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„Science is but an image of the truth.“
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„Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.“
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„Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.“
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„He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.“
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„Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.“
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Francis Bacon
Author born: January 21, 1561
Author died: April 09, 1626
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Philosopher

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