Francis Bacon’s Most Inspirational Quotes
A collection of beautiful and Inspirational Quotes by Francis Bacon, this article we look at Francis Bacon’s most inspiring quotes. Quotes often give context; they can mean different things to different people, here you will find some of the best quotes by Francis Bacon.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon

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

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

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

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

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Francis Bacon

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

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
Francis Bacon

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

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
Francis Bacon

Innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Francis Bacon

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
Francis Bacon

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

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
Francis Bacon

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Francis Bacon

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest
Francis Bacon

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