Famous Quotes

Quotes by Francis Bacon

• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
• The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
• The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
• The worst men often give the best advice.
• 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.
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
• Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
• Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
• Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.