1.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Stillness is the sustenance that invigorates knowledge.
2.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
Francis Bacon
Commence executing what you desire to do presently. We are not living in perpetuity. We solely possess this moment, shining like a diamond in our grasp - and vanishing like a snowflake.
3.
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.
Francis Bacon
If a person starts with an unshakeable conviction, they will eventually be left with uncertainty; however, if they are willing to start from a place of uncertainty, they will end up with certainty.
4.
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Francis Bacon
It's not our words but our actions that demonstrate our morality.
5.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
6.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
7.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
8.
Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.
Francis Bacon
9.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
10.
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
11.
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
Francis Bacon
12.
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.
Francis Bacon
13.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
14.
You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
Francis Bacon
15.
A little science estranges a man from God;
a lot of science brings him back.
Francis Bacon
16.
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Francis Bacon
17.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon
18.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
19.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
20.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon
21.
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
22.
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.
Francis Bacon
23.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon
24.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon
25.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
26.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
27.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Francis Bacon
28.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Francis Bacon
29.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
30.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
31.
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
Francis Bacon
32.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon
33.
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
Francis Bacon
34.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
35.
The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
Francis Bacon
36.
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
Francis Bacon
37.
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
Francis Bacon
38.
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
Francis Bacon
39.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
40.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
41.
The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon
42.
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.
Francis Bacon
43.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
44.
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Francis Bacon
45.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
46.
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
Francis Bacon
47.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon
48.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
Francis Bacon
49.
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.
Francis Bacon
50.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
