Francis Bacon Quotes

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"

on Wisdom

"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."

on Wisdom

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."

on Resilience

"The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend."

on Wisdom

"All rising to a great place is by a winding stair."

on Success

"Nothing is terrible except fear itself."

on Fear

"Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage."

on Friendship

"I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?"

on Inequality

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea."

on Perception

"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read."

on Friendship

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

on Writing

"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

on Wisdom

"As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time."

on Innovation

"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison."

on Health

"Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested."

on Writing