Francis Bacon Quotes and its meanings

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.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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.

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.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

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.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Knowledge is power.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Knowledge is power.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Friends are thieves of time.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

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.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.