Francis Bacon Quotes Page 3

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge |

It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man’s self.
Francis Bacon, Essays
Communication |

For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.
Francis Bacon, Complete Works of Francis Bacon
New Beginnings Quotes |

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
Humor |

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon, Essays
Quotes about Book |

Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.
Francis Bacon, Essays
Anger |

Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge |

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
Francis Bacon
Greatness |

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon
Opportunity |

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon
Experience |

Silence is the sleep that nourisheswisdom.
Francis Bacon
Wise Quotes |

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
Time |

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. Francis Bacon
The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon
Work |

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
Friendship |

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
Quotes about God |

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon
Quotes about Life |

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
Choices |

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Francis Bacon
Joy |

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
Funny Quotes about Life |

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Doubt |

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