Francis Bacon: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”

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

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

“Knowledge itself is power.”
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.”

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

“There are two ways of spreading light.. to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”

“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”

“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”

“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.”

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”

“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”

“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”