Francis Bacon
93 quotations
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
I would live to study, and not study to live.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
In charity there is no excess.
To choose time is to save time.
Time is the measure of business.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.