1. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” – Francis Bacon
2. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” – Francis Bacon
3. “Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon
4. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon
5. “The remedy is worse than the disease.” – Francis Bacon
6. “It’s not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.” – Francis Bacon
7. “If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.” – Francis Bacon
8. “It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.” – Francis Bacon
9. “Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.” – Francis Bacon
10. “A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.” – Francis Bacon
11. “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” – Francis Bacon
12. “Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.” – Francis Bacon
13. “Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.” – Francis Bacon
14. “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” – Francis Bacon
15. “By indignities men come to dignities.” – Francis Bacon
16. “I believe in deeply ordered chaos.” – Francis Bacon
17. “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.” – Francis Bacon
18. “If you can talk about it, why paint it?” – Francis Bacon
19. “Time is the author of authors.” – Francis Bacon
20. “Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.” – Francis Bacon
21. “A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules.” – Francis Bacon
22. “Revenge is a kind of wild justice.” – Francis Bacon
23. “I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.” – Francis Bacon
24. “To know truly is to know by causes.” – Francis Bacon
25. “Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.” – Francis Bacon
26. “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.” – Francis Bacon
27. “If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study mathematics.” – Francis Bacon
28. “In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.” – Francis Bacon
29. “The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.” – Francis Bacon
30. “It is natural to die as to be born.” – Francis Bacon
31. “Wonder is the seed of knowledge.” – Francis Bacon
32. “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.” – Francis Bacon
33. “Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.” – Francis Bacon
34. “Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.” – Francis Bacon
35. “It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.” – Francis Bacon
36. “A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” – Francis Bacon
37. “Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.” – Francis Bacon
38. “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
39. “It is impossible to love and be wise.” – Francis Bacon
40. “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.” – Francis Bacon
41. “To spend too much time in studies is sloth.” – Francis Bacon
42. “Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man’s estate.” – Francis Bacon
43. “Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.” – Francis Bacon
44. “The images of men’s wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.” – Francis Bacon
45. “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” – Francis Bacon
46. “If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.” – Francis Bacon
47. “He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? ‘A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.’” – Francis Bacon
48. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon
49. “The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.” – Francis Bacon
50. “A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.” – Francis Bacon
51. “A lie faces God and shrinks from man.” – Francis Bacon
52. “By far the best proof is experience.” – Francis Bacon
53. “A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.” – Francis Bacon
54. “We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake…” – Francis Bacon
55. “Silence is the virtue of fools.” – Francis Bacon
56. “Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist’s mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.” – Francis Bacon
57. “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” – Francis Bacon
58. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon
59. “Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.” – Francis Bacon
60. “God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.” – Francis Bacon
61. “It’s all so meaningless, we may as well be extraordinary.” – Francis Bacon
62. “Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?” – Francis Bacon
63. “Money is a great servant but a bad master.” – Francis Bacon
64. “Man by the fall fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over nature. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by the arts and sciences.” – Francis Bacon
65. “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.” – Francis Bacon
66. “Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.” – Francis Bacon
67. “You can’t be more horrific than life itself.” – Francis Bacon
68. “Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.” – Francis Bacon
69. “There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.” – Francis Bacon
70. “We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.” – Francis Bacon
71. “God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.” – Francis Bacon
72. “In charity there is no excess.” – Francis Bacon
73. “There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Francis Bacon
74. “Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.” – Francis Bacon
75. “Art is man added to Nature.” – Francis Bacon
76. “There is surely no greater wisdom, than well to time the beginnings, and onsets, of things.” – Francis Bacon
77. “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” – Francis Bacon
78. “Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.” – Francis Bacon
79. “It is a poor centre of a man’s actions, himself.” – Francis Bacon
80. “Always let losers have their words.” – Francis Bacon
81. “Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.” – Francis Bacon
82. “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.” – Francis Bacon
83. “The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.” – Francis Bacon
84. “I would live to study, not study to live.” – Francis Bacon
85. “When talking about the violence of paint, it’s nothing to do with the violence of war. It’s to do with an attempt to remake the violence of reality iteslf.” – Francis Bacon
86. “In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.” – Francis Bacon
87. “The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.” – Francis Bacon
88. “The place of justice is a hallowed place.” – Francis Bacon
89. “There is superstition in avoiding superstition.” – Francis Bacon
90. “I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.” – Francis Bacon
91. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” – Francis Bacon
92. “Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees…” – Francis Bacon
93. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.” – Francis Bacon
94. “If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.” – Francis Bacon
95. “It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands” – Francis Bacon
96. “The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.” – Francis Bacon
97. “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.” – Francis Bacon
98. “Riches are for spending.” – Francis Bacon
99. “No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.” – Francis Bacon
100. “The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” – Francis Bacon
101. “Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.” – Francis Bacon
102. “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.” – Francis Bacon
103. “Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.” – Francis Bacon
104. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon
105. “Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.” – Francis Bacon
106. “Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.” – Francis Bacon
107. “Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.” – Francis Bacon
108. “I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” – Francis Bacon
109. “Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.” – Francis Bacon
110. “The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.” – Francis Bacon
111. “People prefer to believe what they want to be true.” – Francis Bacon
112. “The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.” – Francis Bacon
113. “A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.” – Francis Bacon
114. “To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.” – Francis Bacon
115. “Come home to men’s business and bosoms.” – Francis Bacon
116. “The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.” – Francis Bacon
117. “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
118. “Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.” – Francis Bacon
119. “For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.” – Francis Bacon
120. “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.” – Francis Bacon
121. “Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.” – Francis Bacon
122. “Friends are thieves of time.” – Francis Bacon
123. “Truth is a naked and open daylight.” – Francis Bacon
124. “In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.” – Francis Bacon
125. “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” – Francis Bacon
126. “I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.” – Francis Bacon
127. “I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.” – Francis Bacon
128. “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” – Francis Bacon
129. “God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.” – Francis Bacon
130. “Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.” – Francis Bacon
131. “A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.” – Francis Bacon
132. “Reading makes a full man; Speaking a ready man; writing an exact man” – Francis Bacon
133. “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” – Francis Bacon